Showing 1 - 10 of 412
differences for education between men and women, documenting a significantly larger premium for women. This sharp distinction is … causal as demonstrated by analysis of the compulsory schooling law. Recent bans on women's education and employment are … projected to have significant negative impacts on women's future schooling, wage growth, and national income growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072133
examine its impact on native women's labor market outcomes. While previous studies have mainly focused on wage effects among … low-skilled male workers and found limited effects, the consequences for native women have been largely overlooked. This … research fills this gap by examining how the influx of low-skilled immigrants affected native women's labor force participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015408589
We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300055
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128718
high-income jobs degenerated consistently throughout the 1991-2015 period. When compared to that of women, the opposite is …-2009 by low-income women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501293
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the … for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women … good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286355
We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the borders between the former Papal States on the one hand, and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena on the other. Our results show that a century after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321831
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041426
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585