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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women …, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 …-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs …
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Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a variety of factors have influenced this process. We find...
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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … wages, investment, and firm profitability. Country characteristics, such as educational attainment, can also improve …
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-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair-likely owing to low entry wages of new … workers-slowed down real wage growth. There are, however, also signs of structural changes in the labor market affecting wages …
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, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …
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This paper assesses the responsiveness of wages and labor force movements to employment shocks across British and U ….S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all …
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with propensity score matching method. The analysis confirms that education opens up opportunities for women to escape … agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry-a disadvantage … increasingly relevant when countries develop and urbanization progresses. Opening a household enterprise offers women an …
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Europe. Almost two-thirds of working age women in the region are either inactive or unemployed: a huge bite into human … micro-level data to explore what explains low participation and employment rates among women in the region. Our findings … participation of women in the labor force. However, these measures are not enough to notably improve employability of women, which …
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advanced Europe, where wages are more closely related to inflation and inflation expectations in the short run, implying …
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