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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

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Gendered laws

Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2019

This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...

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