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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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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …
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the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment of … sector, whereas both wage employment and wages of men in the formal sector increase. Our findings, including those on the … men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls -which results mainly from the elimination of part-time jobs …
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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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people working in various creative occupations-is estimated to contribute nearly 8% of the country's employment, much higher …
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in outcomes for establishments in treated and untreated states. We find that paid parental leave laws reduce employment … in an industry that were women, and find that there is no systematic evidence that firms reduce employment more in …
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.4% of gross value added (GVA) between 2000-2001 and 2011-12, while, the share of wages to workers in GVA declined from 26 …
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