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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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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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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment

Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017

In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...

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