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negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …
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Despite the steady increase in the number of women who join the labor force, there are still substantial cross-country variations in both women’s labor force participation and gender-linked occupational inequality. Utilizing micro-data from 47 countries (circa 2013) obtained from the...
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? (3) Is there an impact of education levels on the gender employment gap? As for empirical analysis, for the first two … levels and the gender employment gap. …
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employment rates. Up-skilling provided a sizable counterweight to the increase in earnings inequality resulting from …
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We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …
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immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational …' hourly wages and employment. The findings showed that the share of immigrants, had a positive effect on natives' wages and … employment in 2005 and 2009. In 2015, however, a negative relationship was found, with the share of immigrants impacting …
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The dissertation aims to analyse the wage gaps between native workers and immigrants in the United States in the period of 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The methodology used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results found that immigrants earn less...
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Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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