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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS

Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018

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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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon

Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017

This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...

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Childcare markets and maternal employment : a typology

Flynn, Lindsay - 2018

How does the structure of a country's childcare market influence maternal employment? Childcare markets vary across countries, leading mothers to rely on various forms of care depending on what is available to them in both the public (state-provided) and private (non-state) childcare markets....

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Extreme working hours in Western Europe and North America : a new aspect of polarization

Burger, Anna S. - 2015

This paper analyzes the trends and root causes of extreme working hours in sixteen Western European countries, Canada, and the United States between 1970 and 2010. Earlier literature has revealed increasing trends in extreme working hours in the United States and recognized the negative...

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Immigration in the EU : an empirical analysis of the impact of immigration on the German labor market

DeVeaux, Frederick - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of immigration on Germany's labor market in the context of the recent 2004 and 2007 EU … immigration depressed annual wages and annual weeks worked for native German citizens. The results indicate that a 10 percent rise … of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages of native German citizens by about 3 percent …

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Does immigration affect native's labor market outcomes in Germany?

Tas, Dilan; Kastrat, Merima - 2019

immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational …Germany is one of the several countries in Europe that have opened its borders to immigrants for many years. The … admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the …

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How do regional price levels affect income inequality? : household-level evidence from 21 countries

Janský, Petr; Šedivý, Marek - 2018

Regional differences in prices levels are substantial in many countries, but little is known about how important they are for income inequality and relative poverty. To bridge this gap, we provide new evidence on the basis of the best available data and a novel two-step approach. First, we...

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Women's part-time wage penalties across countries

Bardasi, Elena (contributor); Gornick, Janet C. (contributor) - 2007

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Exactly how has income inequality changed? : Patterns of distributional change in core societies

Alderson, Arthur S. (contributor); … - 2005

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