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This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the immigrant adjustment model, which incorporates both the...
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How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we … low skill men, control for several dimensions of selection, and follow men from age 17-40. We find that marriage increases …
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job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely … to intend to change jobs, amongst men it is sexual harassment that leads to an increased propensity to quit. We find no … precision with which we estimate this interaction, especially for men …
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After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States … model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of explaining these trends. We investigate the effects of changes in Social … of these factors. The recent increase in the LFPR of older men can be explained by changes in the composition of the …
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It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage … premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting men earn more than men not living with a … whether a similar premium accrues to gay men who live with a male partner and whether cohabiting gay men have different …
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Relative employment conditions have changed across the public and private sectors in Britain over the last decade with the former becoming a more attractive earnings option. Using new linked employee-employer data for Britain in 2004, this paper shows that, on average, full-time male public...
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Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper …
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Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...
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retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … function of the increasing difficulty older men experienced in obtaining bridge jobs - part-year and/or part-time - between … older men - especially those in lower-wage jobs - seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …
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We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high …
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