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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
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the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …
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constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men …
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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with those of older White British men and women, and with those of older Black British men and women. The study … White British men and women, as well as older Black British men and women, experience occupational access constraints and … Black British men and women. In addition, Black British women experience the highest level of age discrimination. These …
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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their …
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This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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not significantly differ from native men in the probability of being employed. In contrast, refugee women have an economic … disadvantage than other migrant women and native women. I find no evidence that health status differences attribute to the …
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, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within …
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We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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