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contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. …
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that training has no significant impact on the mean offered wage in bluecollar occupation, but training increases the mean … offered wage in white-collar occupation by 19 percent. Training also substantially increases the job offer rates in both …
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period 1991-2001 we show that perhaps one-quarter of women moving from full- to part-time work move to an occupation at a … within the occupation is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a … lower-level occupation. These findings indicate a loss of economic efficiency through the underutilisation of the skills of …
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Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
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Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...
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colleagues employed in the same occupation. On balance, women's noncognitive skills give them a slight wage advantage. Finally …
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With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...
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With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...
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Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is...
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% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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