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"The Impact of Working while Enrolled in College on Wages"
Nelson, Wade; Jr, Owen Wade Nelson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260430
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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On wage formation, wage flexibility and wage coordination : A focus on the wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States
Peeters, Marga; Den Reijer, Ard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the …, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage … and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union’s periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151114
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Pragmatic identity and alterity in political discourse
Boicu, Ruxandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The article analyzes a sample of political discourse, namely the speech entitled “We Want Our Country Back”, delivered by the British nationalist, MEP, Ashley Mote. In the communication situation, the audience is made up of conservative, right-wing politicians or supporters, mainly readers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259753
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Factors Affecting Call Center as a Job Preference among Employees in Davao City
Castro, Alyssa Mae; Deluna, Roperto Jr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study was conducted to determine the factors that influence employees in Davao City to work in call centers. The objective of the study is to determine the socio-economic and demographic profile of employees working in the call center sector andidentify the factors that affect the job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112343
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Subject of degree and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Italy
Noe', Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261111
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public-private sector wage differentials for males and females in vietnam
Danh, Nguyen; Long, Hoang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
than private workers. For women, public administration wages are lower than private wages. However, SOE wages are higher … than private wages for women. The wage differential is mostly due to the differential in characteristics in which public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619953
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Ethnic Wage Inequality in Vietnam: Empirical Evidence from 2002
Pham, T. Hung; Reilly, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper complements earlier studies on ethnic minority underdevelopment in Vietnam by empirically examining the ethnic wage gap in the Vietnamese labour market, using data from a large-scale household survey conducted in 2002. The paper uses the ‘index number’ decomposition method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621402
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THE GENDER PAY GAP IN VIETNAM, 1993-2002: A QUANTILE REGRESSION APPROACH
Pham, Hung T; Reilly, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper uses mean and quantile regression analysis to investigate the gender pay gap for the wage employed in Vietnam over the period 1993 to 2002. It finds that the Doi moi reforms appear to have been associated with a sharp reduction in gender pay gap disparities for the wage employed. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621535
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Do Institutions Reduce Gender Discrimination? Evidence from Labor Market Participation Rate in Some Selected African Countries
Ojeaga, Paul; Odejimi, Deborah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The study investigates the role of social-political institutions on gender discrimination and female employment in five selected African countries, Ghana, Cameroon, Botswana, Kenya and Egypt. The methodology used is the quantile regression analysis, which is based on the premise that estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113229