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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2021
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
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The Incidence and Wage Penalty of Overqualification: The Case of Egypt
Fakih, Ali; Lizzaik, Zeina - 2024
The phenomenon of overqualification is becoming increasingly common across many countries. In this research study, the main objective is to examine factors that determine overqualification, the impact of overqualification on wages, and the earning differences between genders in the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050981
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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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The Motherhood Penalty in China: Having A Child Increases Gender Inequality in the Labor Market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
babysit, which generate motherhood earnings penalty in labor market. Finally, well-being analysis shows that subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348122
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Immigrant Category of Admission and the Earnings of Adults and Children: How far does the Apple Fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew D.; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814620
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Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates
Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019
Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966227
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Diving in the minds of recruiters: What triggers gender stereotypes in hiring?
Van Borm, Hannah; Baert, Stijn - 2022
We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186267
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Motherhood and labor market penalty: a study on Indian labor market
Sarkhel, Sukanya; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2020
Labor market penalty associated with motherhood (in short, motherhood penalty) is an important issue related to gender … equality in the society. Our paper is an attempt to empirically examine the extent of motherhood penalty in the context of … relationship between motherhood and labor market outcomes for women. Besides using conventional measures of motherhood such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287458
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Immigrant Fertility in the Midst of Intensified Enforcement
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroy, Esther - 2017
This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 American Community Survey, we find that a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599078
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Field-of-Study Homogamy
Bičáková, Alena; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2017
This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study - a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent...
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