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On the Use of Spectral Value Decomposition for the Construction of Composite Indices
Farnia, Luca - 2019
High dimensional composite index makes experts’ preferences in set-ting weights a hard task. In the literature, one of the approaches to derive weights from a data set is Principal Component or Factor Analysis that, although conceptually different, they are similar in results when FA is based...
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Italian Cities SDGs Composite Index: A Methodological Approach to Measure the Agenda 2030 at Urban Level
Farnia, Luca; Cavalli, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - 2019
In this paper we calculate the Italian Cities Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Composite Index potentially useful for policy analysis and dissemination of sustainable development at local level in Italy. Structured into several dimensions representing 16 out of 17 SDGs adopted by the United...
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: The promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...
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Skill differences and wage-effort relationship: Who are more exploited, high-skilled or low-skilled workers?
Park, Hyun Woong; Rieu, Dong-min - 2023
with skill differentials incorporated. We perform simulations to find the Nash equilibrium numerically, and our central … skill-wage relationship matches the observed data on wage inequality of the U.S. Second, we employ two measures of the … negotiation power vis-á-vis their employers. On the other hand, in terms of the effort-wage ratio adjusted by skill, it is higher …
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Destruction or polarization: Estimating the impact of technology on jobs in Indian manufacturing
Vashisht, Pankaj - 2017
trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand …
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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007
relate this to the skill distribution of workers in the firm. We find that there is positive assortative matching, in … particular among long-lived firms. Using skill-specific estimates of an index of search frictions, we find that the results can … only to a small extent be explained by heterogeneity of search frictions across worker skill groups. …
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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This metastudy provides a...
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
Little research has been done to examine discrimination against gays and lesbians in the labor market. Badgett (1995) conducted the only previous study investigating labor market outcomes of gays and lesbians using a random data set. However, due to the structure of the data, the wage...
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
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