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-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …
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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...
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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...
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This paper analyzes the composition of the wage differentials among part-time and full-time working women in seven European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Using cross-sectional microdata from the eighth waves of the European Union Statistics on...
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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This paper investigates which different views have occurred on the main lines of the Dutch incomes policy. To this end the implications of the incomes policies pursued by different cabinets have been analyzed, mainly since 1973. It appears that distributive policies are heavily influenced by a...
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Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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The recent implementation of the Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social in Argentina, which aim is to fight against short term poverty and promote investment in human capital, has generated a broad debate in society. This paper analyzes the impact of this program on poverty and...
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