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Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the unexplained gender wage gap vary across occupations and find that this …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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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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was partially offset by changes in the distribution of these characteristics. Between-gender inequality fell with respect … to both samples. In contrast to within-gender inequality, this was largely explained by changes in the returns to the …
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …
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, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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