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gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …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 …
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gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800376
New survey data for a panel of Polish firms is used to study employment and wage adjustment in state-owned enterprises … and find significant size-wage and employment-growth wage effects. …
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Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has …
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Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....
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labour mobility, labour deprivation due to long-term unemployment, skill mismatch and emerging signs of inflexibility in wage …
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continued longer than female earnings growth, creating a gender earnings gap. …
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This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …
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