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Trade liberalization and gender inequality : can free-trade policies help to reduce gender inequalities in employment and wages?
Pieters, Janneke - 2015
educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427672
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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too
Verick, Sher Singh - 2014
economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420355
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421952
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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431678
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Trade liberalization and gender inequality : can free-trade policies help to reduce gender inequalities in employment and wages?
Pieters, Janneke - 2018 - Version 2
educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934130
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Disability and labor market outcomes : disability is associated with labor market disadvantage : recent evidence points to a causal relationship
Jones, Melanie - 2016
discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456243
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Women's labor force participation : family-friendly policies increase women’s labor force participation, benefiting them, their families, and society at large
Winkler, Anne E. - 2016
Female labor force participation is mainly driven by the value of women’s market wages versus the value of their non-market time. Labor force participation by women varies considerably across countries. To understand this international variation, one must further consider differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539181
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The labor market in Japan, 2000–2018 : despite a plummeting working-age population, Japan has sustained its labor force size, thanks mostly to surging employment among women
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Hiroaki - 2019
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan’s recent experiences provide important lessons regarding how demographic shifts affect the labor market and individuals’ economic well-being. On the whole, the labor market has shown a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034070
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The labor market in Japan, 2000–2016 : despite a plummeting working-age population, Japan has sustained its labor force size, thanks mostly to surging employment among women
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Hiroaki - 2017
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan’s recent experiences provide important lessons regarding how demographic shifts affect the labor market and individuals’ economic well-being. On the whole, the labor market has shown a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730579
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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417130