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Carefree? Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain
Heitmueller, Axel; Inglis, Kirsty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) for the years 1991 to 2002 this paper studies the determinants of labour market...
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Carefree? : Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain
Heitmüller, Axel; Inglis, Kirsty - 2004
A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) for the years 1991 to 2002 this paper studies the determinants of labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274205
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...
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Leisure Time in Japan: How Much and for Whom?
Scott M. Fuess, Jr. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Japan is famous for long working hours. For decades the Japanese government has tried to influence how people spend their free time. In 5-yearly surveys since 1986, the government has surveyed "quality of life" by gauging how much time people spend daily in various "noneconomic" activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762446
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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...
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Do former college athletes earn more at work? A nonparametric assessment
Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, … - 2005
. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is … significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by … using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276244
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...
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The Post-Unification German Labor Market
Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in the last decade, East Germans were faced with very high levels of joblessness that considering labor market exits and active labor market policy, are only partly reported as...
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A note on informality in the labor market
Khamis, Melanie - 2009
This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the legalistic view, and in terms of productivity view of the labor market this paper makes an empirical...
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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
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