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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor Force Attachment
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2001
This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U.S. over the past thirty years, typified by the record low level of short-term unemployment. We show that part of the increase is due to changes in how duration is measured, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470205
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Education and Unemployment of Women
Mincer, Jacob - 1991
The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force. The channel through which this relation arises is also the same, namely, labor turnover, almost half of which involves unemployment. However, the relation between education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475156
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EU Accession and Foreign Owned Firms in Bulgaria
Feliciano, Zadia M. - 2016
Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456812
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From Mill Town to Board Room : The Rise of Women's Paid Labor
Costa, Dora L. - 2000
In the twenty-first century many of the professional and high ranking managerial workers in the United States and in other OECD countries will be women. This change in women's social and economic status represents a dramatic break with the past, but one that can only be understood by looking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471162
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Making Single Mothers Work : Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2000
We describe the enormous changes in social and tax policy in recent years that have encouraged work by single mothers. We document the changes in federal and state income taxes, AFDC and Food Stamp benefits, Medicaid, training and child care programs. We describe the quantitative importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471285
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada : 1987-1988
Baker, Michael - 1999
The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth legislation. A number of previous studies have examined this relationship in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low wages in ``female jobs'' well as important limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471413
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Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women
Levine, Phillip J. - 1999
Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471547
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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions
Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999
Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471743
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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study
Mairesse, Jacques - 1999
In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...
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