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, pointing to the marriage-biased and gender-biased taxbenefit structures in the analysed countries. Our results suggest that …
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This paper aims to study the evolution in the age composition of males' employment in the aftermath of the public sector downsizing in the 1990s -during the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Policies - and the new labor law in 2003. This answers the question of whether young (15-29) and...
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Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …
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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 changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using …
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We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in … analyses, a diminishing role of permanent income is observed, due both to a reduction in the gender difference in permanent … income and in gender differences in its returns. Overall, the evidence points to more equal wealth accumulation both in terms …
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individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking … consistent across different subgroups of individuals. Effects of import competition are then inspected by gender, alongside …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....
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participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …
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Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
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