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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...

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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006

unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …

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Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market

Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

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Do Austrian Men and Women Become more Equal? At Least in Terms of Labor Supply!

Wernhart, Georg; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...

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The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997

Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage...

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Where to work?: The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2006

With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...

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Temporary Jobs and the Exit to Open-Ended Jobs in the Swedish Labour Market

Wallette, Mårten - 2004

This paper analyses exit probabilities from different types of temporary jobs to open-ended jobs in Sweden during 1991-1999. The main aim of the study is to illuminate how the exit probabilities, and their determinants, differ by type of temporary job. A second focus is how the exit...

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Human capital portfolios

Silos, Pedro; Smith, Eric - 2012

This paper assesses the trade-off between acquiring specialized skills targeted for a particular occupation and acquiring a package of skills that diversifies risk across occupations. Individual-level data on college credits across subjects and labor-market dynamics reveal that diversification...

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Sector-specific human capital and the distribution of earnings

Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper incorporates assignment frictions and sector-specific training into the Roy model of occupational choice. Assignment frictions represent the extent of the market whereas differences in sector-specific training reflect worker specialization. This framework thus captures Adam Smith's...

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Gender inequality in a globalizing world

Seguino, Stephanie - 2005

Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...

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