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part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …
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unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high …, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on gender inequality in these outcomes …
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; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …
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This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over various socioeconomic groups such as gender, age, education and sector of …
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Wage mobility reduces the persistence of wage inequality. We develop a framework to quantify the contribution of employer-to-employer movers to aggregate wage mobility. Using three decades of German social security data, we find that inequality increased while aggregate wage mobility decreased....
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effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per …
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. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …
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fraction of the gender gap in employment, but they explain no more than 6 percent of the gender wage gap. Differences in … additional employment protection to part-time jobs is more effective in reducing the gender wage gap. …I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization … the employment share of women and men. However, the adverse employment effects are only persistent for women, leading to a …
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congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender …
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