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Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2021

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …

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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

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The Long and Short of It : Maternity Leave Coverage and Women?s Labor Market Outcomes

Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - 2004

We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women?s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market …

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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2003

In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001

This paper assesses the potential of ?workplace training? with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide ?optimal? training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

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Inter-regional wage dispersion in Portugal

Vieira, José António Cabral; Couto, João Pedro Almeida; … - 2005

standard deviation (WASD) of inter-regional wage differentials. The value is high and quite stable over time. The highest wages …

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