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on gender employment in 46 sectors, which include 15 services sectors. Social Accounting Matrix has been used to generate … gender employment multipliers and identify sectors where higher exports of services may lead to greater gender employment … trace its gender differential impacts. This study makes a pioneering attempt to estimate the impact of exports of services …
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The desired professional insertion (placement) after training is under the influence of personal and exogenous variables. In the present paper we identify the constraints and devices that, in an interactive way, can shape and affect the professional insertion. This paper is a result of a...
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relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …
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disparities – across occupational group, gender, job type, and region. It is observed that while inter-group disparity or vertical …
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employment statistics in the informal sector (1993); 3rd Revision of the United Nation’s System of National Accounts, which …
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qualitative evidence from 53 qualitative studies on the relationship between innovation and employment in low-income countries … (LICs). The meta-analysis reveals a positive but small effect, with evident bias in favour of skilled-labour employment …. Both meta-analysis and narrative synthesis findings indicate that innovation’s effects on employment in LICs tend to be …
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We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … professional employment advertisements posted on major Internet employment boards in China for positions such as engineers … applicants. On one hand, this evidence supports the hypothesis that economic reform and the market economy may mitigate gender …
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mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the … globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition …
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The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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Our paper introduces the dimension of social psychology in a model of efficiency wages and gender diversity. In this … increase women's productivity, the firm increases their level of employment. In our efficiency-wage theory, women’s lower wages …
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