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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …'s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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Using 1994-98 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) microdata, this paper investigates the impact of employment protection laws on the incidence of temporary employment by demographic group. More stringent employment protection for regular jobs is predicted to increase the relative...
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This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age …
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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...
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. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …
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included information about mathematics and reading scores and student demographics such as gender, race, and SES. Teacher …
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We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …
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