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Female Labor Supply : Why is the US Falling Behind?
Blau, Francine D. - 2013
other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325054
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The transition in East-Germany : when is a ten-point fall in the gender wage gap bad news?
Hunt, Jennifer - In: Journal of labor economics 20 (2002) 1, pp. 148-169
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Jewish mother goes to work : Trends in the labor force participation of women in Israel, 1955-1980
Ben-Porath, Yoram - In: Journal of labor economics 3 (1985) 1/2, pp. S310-S327
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Employment and technological innovation : evidence from UK manufacturing firms
Van Reenen, John - In: Journal of labor economics 15 (1997) 2, pp. 255-284
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The effects of minimum wages on employment : theory and evidence from Britain
Dickens, Richard; Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan - In: Journal of labor economics 17 (1999) 1, pp. 1-22
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Rubble Women : The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …. Using difference-in-difference and instrumental-variable strategies, we find that postwar mandatory employment reduced …
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