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Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia
Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015
This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...
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Specific human capital and skills in Indian manufacturing: observed wage and tenure relationships from a worker survey
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Abhishek, Kumar - 2020
It is an overarching and persistent fact that job creation in the Indian manufacturing sector has fallen short of the growth in the workforce. The successive governments since 2009 onwards have attempted to initiate policies to enhance the growth in employment along with quality of jobs in the...
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Employment cyclicality by firm size, wage, and productivity in Brazil
Cravo, Túlio; Jacinto, Paulo de Andrade; Schimanski, … - 2018 - Version: August 27th, 2018
The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the understanding of the labor market dynamics, and for devising labor policies that aim at dampening...
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The labor market power of exporting firms : evidence from Latin America
Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Roux, Nicolás de; … - 2024
Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...
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Fatter attraction : marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2009
or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits. -- Body Size ; Labor Supply ; Earnings … ; Marriage …
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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Work and health in Switzerland : immigrants and natives
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper is concerned with a comparison of immigrants and Swiss citizens with respect to level of education, labor market outcomes and healthcare utilization. The evidence is based on data for 1999 from the first wave of the Swiss Household Panel. In order to control for confounding...
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Importing inequality : immigration and the top 1 percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, Andy - 2020
In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the … universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as …, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominately finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in …
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in the US over two centuries
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Jácome, Elisa; … - 2020
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Is entrepreneurship a channel of social mobility in Latin America?
Castellani, Francesca; Lora, Eduardo - 2013
This paper provides a summary of the findings contained in a forthcoming issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship in Latin America as a vehicle for upward social mobility, especially for the middle class. The income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel...
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