Showing 1 - 10 of 31
driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430529
wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421952
affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254499
wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022520
people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415269
people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042307
affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433786
Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417039
Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434019
While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420355