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market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid … employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to …
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areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect … relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card and Lewis' study uses variations across geographies, this paper … relationship between the composition of Mexican immigrants across occupations/industries and average wages in the occupations …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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Language serves two key functions. It enables communication between agents, which allows for the establishment and operation of formal and informal institutions. It also serves a less obvious function, a reassuring quality more closely related to issues linked with trust, social capital, and...
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the information technology (IT) sector’s employment boom of the mid-1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. The results …-IT industry still fared better than those who took a non-IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to …
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among younger workers. To shed some light on the role of wages behind the findings for earnings, wage dynamics is also …
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factors such as employment protection legislation and collective pay agreement coverage also play an important role …
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understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 … bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms …. The study shows several constraints in the path of employment generation in labour intensive sectors-non-availability of …
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craftworkers (CPS 1983-88 and 2000-05) using decomposition analysis and kernel density estimation. It shows that despite the … and this wage gap increased across the competitive" wage distribution. Unions raised the wages of workers who were located …
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