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negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …
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It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...
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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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as employment, low pay, social transfers and poverty. This paper presents basic empirical evidence on the validity of … (wage compression) and employment performance, or between employment performance and poverty. Instead we find a strong and …, the incidence of low wage employment and social expenditure are also strongly and (negatively) related. We examine these …
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In this paper we assess the current relevance of Ricardian theory. Relative prices, labor costs, and productivity are evaluated as determinants of a country's international competitiveness at the industry level. Working with detailed data on unit values and with industry data on productivity, we...
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part of the U.S. distribution derive an important advantage from devoting so much of their time to paid employment: They …
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as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life. Using surveys from five countries (the USA, Australia, Germany …
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When incorporating differences in household characteristics, the choice of equivalence scale can affect the ranking of income distributions. An alternative approach was pioneered by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (G.R. Feiwel (Ed.), Arrow and the Foundation of the Theory of Economic Policy,...
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confirm this hypothesis and show that low-wage employment is a key factor, but, by far, not the only one and that family …
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The premise of the Children in North America Project lies in the kind of world we live in today, an increasingly interdependent, complex, and connected world. It is a small world where school children living in a desert state or a prairie province know all about a tsunami because of images of...
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