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The relative productivity hypothesis of industrialization : the American case, 1820 to 1850
Goldin, Claudia; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 99 (1984) 3, pp. 461-487
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The unequal distribution of unequal pay - An empirical analysis of the gender wage gap in Switzerland
Bonjour, Dorothe; Gerfin, Michael - In: Empirical Economics 26 (2001) 2, pp. 407-427
In this paper we analyze the distribution of the gender wage gap. Using microdata for Switzerland we estimate …
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New Evidence on the Gender Wage Gap in Indonesia
Taniguchi, Kiyoshi; Tuwo, Alika - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2014
those in the private sector. Gender wage gap in Indonesia is mainly due to gender discrimination. An act to equalize …
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Skill demand and the comparative advantage of age: Jobs tasks and earnings from the 1980s to the 2000s in Germany
Gordo, Laura Romeu; Skirbekk, Vegard - In: Labour Economics 22 (2013) C, pp. 61-69
We study the impact of rapid technological change on age and cohort variation in type of work and wages among German men for the 1986–2006 period. Using a task-based approach, we analyze the consequences that technological progress had on changes in the distribution of tasks performed by the...
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Women workers in manufacturing, 1971-91.
S, Tomoda - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1995
Investigates the role of women workers in the manufacturing sector in general, and its sub-sectors in particular, from 1971 to 1991, especially in the light of technological development, globalization and employment flexibility.
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"Evaluating the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia, 2004 - 2011"
Khitarishvili, Tamar - Levy Economics Institute - 2013
This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and …). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the wage distribution, from 0.64 log points to 0.54 log points …. Endowment differences explain between 22 percent and 61 percent of the observed gender wage gap, with the explained proportion …
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
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What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes
Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...
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A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Jasso, Guillermina; Kotz, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two closely-related new families of continuous distributions, which we call the mirrorexponential and the...
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