employment outcomes among female and male workers in industries with different intensity of foreign investment (namely, foreign … direct investment (FDI)-intensive industries and non–FDI–intensive industries). The specific employment outcomes that were … studied to compare the effects of the legislation are the working hours, employment opportunities, and wages of female and …

unemployment and wage inequality. According to this argument, the USA has achieved relatively low unemployment at the cost of … widening inequality, while Europe has only been able to maintain equality at the cost of high unemployment. This introduction …

In this paper, we devise a new methodology to analyse the gender differences in wage inequality. We first examine some … distribution by using a simple measure of inequality, that is the variance of the logarithm of wages. We then apply this method to … Swiss data for the years 1991 and 1995. It appears that the greatest contribution to gender wage inequality differences in …

Purpose – The paper aims at providing evidence on the impact on employment of outward foreign direct investment …/methodology/approach – The effects of foreign production undertaken by Belgian foreign-oriented companies on employment in Belgium are … investigated by performing econometric tests for complementarity or substitution between home and affiliate employment. The data …

wages, employment effects of outward foreign direct investment, immigration patterns, and regional social and labour …

to calculate differences in the probability of employment for different fields of study and propensity score matching to … graduating from a particular field of study affects the probability of employment in all three years. In general, regardless of … the field, the authors observe decreasing probabilities of employment in 2008 and 2009. Using propensity score matching …

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore whether temporary jobs are a port of entry into permanent employment and to argue …. Findings – The authors show that the transition to permanent employment is more likely for individuals who hold any type of …