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Female Labor Supply : Why is the US Falling Behind?
Blau, Francine D. - 2013
other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022
This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Women at work in the pre-civil war United States : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239377
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Women at work in the United States since 1860 : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021
Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216489
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325054
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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education … in reducing gender gap in employment. …
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English skills and early labour market integration : evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
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