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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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sector employment, geographic location, firm size, industry of employment and their contribution to wage inequality. Recent …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...
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We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...
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reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …
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This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...
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almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …
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different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
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This paper aims to provide information on intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey over the last century (at … implying that intergenerational educational mobility increased significantly for the younger generations of children in Turkey …
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Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the … general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency employment is …
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