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Who gains from trade reform? : Some remaining puzzles

Harrison, Ann E.; Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Journal of development economics 59 (1999) 1, pp. 125-154

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International trade, the gender wage gap and female labor force participation

Sauré, Philip; Zoabi, Hosny - In: Journal of development economics 111 (2014), pp. 17-33

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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. the US

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …

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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …

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Gender gaps in labor informality : the motherhood effect

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Edo, María; … - In: Journal of development economics 150 (2021), pp. 1-19

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Expected Interruptions in Labor Force Participation and Sex Related Differences in Earnings Growth

Weiss, Yoram - 1981

The paper analyzes the joint determination of wives' earnings and labor force participation over the life cycle given the interruptions in wives' work careers. The interruptions affect the profitability of the investment in human capital, which in turn determines earnings. The earnings prospects...

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The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men

Binder, Ariel J. - 2019

Over the last half century, U.S. wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these labor market trends, focusing on outcomes for males without a college education. Though wages and...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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Is the Convergence of the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?

Chandra, Amitabh - 2003

I demonstrate that the literature on the racial wage gap has systematically overstated the gains made by African American men by ignoring their withdrawal from the labor force. Three sources of selection-bias are identified: imposing sample selection criteria based on labor supply, trimming...

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The Transition in East Germany : When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

Hunt, Jennifer - 1997

points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the … gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …

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