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In-Work Poverty in the United States
Marx, Ive - 2017
In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning … much in-work poverty is there in the United States? How does the US compare to other rich democracies? Has America's in …-work poverty rate changed over time? Who are the in-work poor? What are the main drivers of levels and changes in in-work poverty …
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Mobility Into and Out of Poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the Pre‐Crisis Period : The Role of Income, Demographic and Labour Market Events
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2016
We analyze poverty dynamics in Europe for the periods 1994‐2001 and 2005‐2008 using, respectively, the data of the ECHP … and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … trigger events (income, demographic, labour market) associated with movements into and out of poverty, using a modified …
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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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Declining Migration within the US : The Role of the Labor Market
Molloy, Raven - 2014
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines...
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The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2021
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Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. The countries are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. I...
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market : Distastes or Uncertainty?
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at answering three main questions: Do gay and lesbian people face occupational access constraints and...
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Where the Girls are : Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
Ederington, Josh - 2009
Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984ﾖ91 to investigate this claim on plant-level data in three ways. First, we examine whether women are...
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The Gender Pay Gap in the CEOS' Labor Market
Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022
We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...
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Female Labor Market Opportunities and Gender Gaps in Aspirations
Molina, Teresa; Usui, Emiko - 2022
Aspirations and plans for the future can influence investments made today. Gender gaps in these views can perpetuate gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how gender gaps in aspirations and expectations are affected by the local labor market. Using a national longitudinal survey...
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