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Movin' on up : hierarchical occupational segmentation and gender wage gaps
Shatnawi, Dina; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2012
Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...
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Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...
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Slow traffic, fast food : the effects of time lost on food store choice
Bencsik, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in highway traffic data in Los Angeles. We find that on days...
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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949487
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Team incentives and performance : evidence from a retail chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015
,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits … bonus dollar an extra $3.80 of sales, and $2.10 of operational profit. The results show the importance of complementarities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317625
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716528
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The effects of health and health shocks on hours worked
Cai, Lixin (contributor); Mavromaras, Kostas G. (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the first six waves of the HILDA survey to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716534
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Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in private- and public-sector employment : a distributional analysis
Barón, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726799
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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2008
countries (i.e., the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia/New Zealand) to the United States. Comparisons with the native born are …
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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main …. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … can be attributed, however, to the fact that the skill price in Australia is lower than the U.S. skill price, so that …
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