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Gendered Effects of Employment Protection on Earnings Mobility
Bárcena-Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020
This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217725
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Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia
Želinský, Tomáš - 2021
well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593315
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The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660930
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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023
Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317430
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COVID-19, Race, and Gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492419
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Decomposing poverty in hard times: Greece 2007-2016
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2020
The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all … population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224923
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Odozi, John; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411419
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Land Access and Poverty among Agricultural Households in Nigeria
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyel, Ruth - 2024
The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047312
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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021
the self-employed, who generally face a higher likelihood of income losses due to COVID-19 than employees, women are 35 …% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432749
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini
Brixiová Schwidrowski, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, … - 2021
outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507662