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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
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Labor-management relations in emerging economies and developing countries
Horwitz, Frank M.; Cooke, Fang Lee - 2021
Africa and Asia, including labor−management relations in South Africa and other jurisdictions in both Africa and Asia. The …, namely Asia and Africa. It includes a discussion of the Africa-Asia nexus or Sino-Africa interface in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655280
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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal insurance : analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of...
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Bond yield spillovers from major advanced economies to emerging Asia
Belke, Ansgar; Dubova, Irina; Volz, Ulrich - 2017
long-term government bond yields in Emerging Asia. To gauge long-term interest spillover effects, the paper uses VAR … variance decompositions with high frequency data. Our results reveal that sovereign bond yields in Emerging Asia responded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111229
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Trade, education, governance and distance : impact on technology diffusion and productivity growth in Asia and LAC
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the South, focusing on LAC and East Asia over the 32 years before the …, and falls with distance to the North; ii) an increase of LAC's ETG to East Asia's levels raises TFP by 165%, fully … accounting for its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) the impact of the education gap equals the sum of the governance and openness …
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Do beliefs in the model minority stereotype reduce attention to inequality that adversely affects Asian Americans?
Chen, Shuai; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wiese, Juliane - 2024
We study whether the model minority stereotype about Asian Americans (e.g., hard-working, intelligent) reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around 90% of the participants either moderately or...
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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-)equality : how big is the glass ceilings for mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women...
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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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Women, violence and work : threat of sexual violence and women's decision to work
Chakraborty, Tanika; Lohawala, Nafisa - 2022
The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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