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Mens sana in corpore Sano! : the hiring premium for physical versus mental exercise in different occupations
Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2023
We investigate the impact of participation in physical and mental exercise activities on hirability. Besides by comparing both forms of exercising, we innovate against the existing literature by comparing their impact between different types of jobs, where other effects could be expected. To...
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The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men in Canada
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015
with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold. This allows us to assess the role that … immigrants' lower returns to social skills, but not to analytical or manual skills. Interestingly, low linguistic proximity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387167
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Breaking gender barriers: experimental evidence on men in pink-collar jobs
Delfino, Alexia - 2021
Traditionally female-dominated sectors are growing and male-dominated ones shrinking, yet sectorial male shares are not changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment program for social workers to analyse barriers to men's entry and the nature of men's sorting into...
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Default options and training participation
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H. - 2013
with lower cognitive skills choose the default courses more often. -- human capital investment ; training ; default …
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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter : estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data
Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009
We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2013
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan's labor market
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Sinha, Nistha; … - 2016
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
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Female leadership and gender gap within firms : evidence from an Italian board reform
Maida, Agata; Weber, Andrea - 2019
Over the last decade, several countries have followed the Norwegian example and introduced laws mandating gender quota for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the "glass ceiling" which prevents women from advancing into top corporate positions. In this paper, we...
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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Heterogeneity of skill needs and job complexity : evidence from the OECD PIAAC survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and … cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of … workers with well-matched skills to their job duties. Jobs are categorised according to the nature of tasks, including the …
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