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DEMAND FOR HEALTHY FOOD IN THE UNITED STATES
Feng, Xudong; Chern, Wen S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000
This study investigates the demand for selected healthy food groups in the United States. The original linear approximate almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS) is modified by the use of a Laspeyres index and a normalization in order to compute demand elasticities identically to the AIDS model....
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Le temps des ruptures. - 1986. - 158 S.
Lakehal, Mokhtar - nouv. éd
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The Occupational Segregation of Black Women in the United States: A Look at its Evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; del Río, Coral - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2015
Based on detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pairwise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women declined dramatically in 1940-1980, decreased slightly in 1980-2000, and remained stagnant in...
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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010
Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669
I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and recentered influence function regression methods. As the baby boom generation has moved toward the latter part of their career, earnings distribution statistics for the working age...
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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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MACRO-ECONOMETRIC MODELS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND: INDUSTRY, TRADE AND WAGES IN 6 COUNTRIES, 1960-2012
Guisan, M.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 13 (2013) 2, pp. 45-56
We analyse the impact of industry on non industrial production, as well as its effect on wages and employment in 6 OECD … countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States for the period 1960-2012. Our approach to … policies, for 2009-2012, have had a negative effect on wages and development. The main conclusion is that industrialized …
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The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
. Nevertheless, in 2010, Black women with university degrees still tend to concentrate in occupations that have wages below the …
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Globalisation and Wage Inequality: A Comparison of the Manufacturing Sector in Canada and the United States from 1970 to 2001
Grenier, Gilles; Tavakoli, Akbar - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 1, pp. 53-69
This article compares Canada and the United States in terms of the evolution of the relative wages of production and …
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Gender Equality in Reconciling Work and Childcare in South Korea
Lee, Kook Hee - 2009
procuring full remuneration throughout the leave period. However, the mandatory maternity leave system in Germany is not an …
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