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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”

Payson, Steven - 2019

The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...

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Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2018

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...

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Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2022

This paper explores the role of performance-related pay to the UK gender pay gap at the mean and across the earnings distribution. Applying decomposition methods to data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we find that performance-related pay is an important but neglected factor, with...

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The effect of self-employment on health: Instrumental variables analysis of longitudinal social security data

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2018

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the potential public policy implications. However, answering these questions is hampered by data and identification constraints. This is the first paper that draws on comprehensive...

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Immunity-driven Comparative Advantage and its Palliative Effect on Social Health and Inequality: A Theoretical Perspective

Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga G. - 2023

We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...

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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed – particularly women – in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...

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Dimensions of health workforce performance: a scoping review

Fabiano, Gianluca; Bustamante, Juana Paola; Codjia, Laurence - 2024

Introduction: The World Health Report 2006 defined 'availability', 'competence', 'responsiveness' and 'productivity' as … productivity emphasises the role of technologies in enhancing clinical practice and overall system efficiency. Last, recurring … health worker well-being. Conceptually, productivity is broadened to reflect a more nuanced understanding of efficiency …

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Hours Worked of the Self-Employed and Agglomeration

Cai, Zhengyu - 2018

competition, whereas sorting, simultaneity, and agglomeration wage effect are less likely to be influential. Additionally, only … small business owners perceive the pressures of competition in localization economies. The young unincorporated self …

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Telework and Time Use

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021

on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity … for some. There is also evidence that telework can increase productivity for some workers and those workers may …

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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...

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