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Job separation and sick leave in the long-term care sector in England
Vadean, Florin; Saloniki, Eirini - 2021
Staff turnover in the long-term care (LTC) sector in England is perceived to be relatively high. Most job leavers do not leave the sector, but rather move to other LTC employers. Nevertheless, there are concerns that the high 'churn' has a negative impact on continuity and quality of care, care...
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...
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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxesand benefits : evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017
This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...
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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019
This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...
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Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? : a meta-analytical review of the literature
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2021
We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations...
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...
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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1 %?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
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The evolution of tax implicit value judgements, redistribution and income inequality in the UK : 1968 to 2015
Van de Ven, Justin; Hérault, Nicolas - 2019
An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …
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Wage compression and the gender pay gap : wage-setting institutions narrow the gender pay gap but may reduce employment for some women
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015
There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were close to earnings parity with men, while in others large gaps remained. Since women and men have different average levels of education and experience and commonly work in...
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