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design of participation-enhancing policies. Using data from a nationally representative Household Survey covering the period …
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Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042307
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the … workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non …
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Household Surveys over 2004-2016 from Georgia, which experienced large flows of internal migrants from the early 1990s until now …
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such economic and social factors as traditional views of gender roles and limited government support for caregivers. Still …
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positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical analyses show that the introduction of cleaner process innovations …, rather than product-based ones, may also lead to higher employment. The rationale is that cleaner technologies lead to cost …
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Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of a lack of appropriate data. A … empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and the validity of the three schools of thought in the literature on the … located. Our contention that informal self-employment is voluntary is confirmed by the substantial earnings premia associated …
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. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … labor market is segmented along the formal-informal divide, slicing the data by gender and age. The analysis that we perform …
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paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We use the British Household Panel Survey …
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