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to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …
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differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …
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There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The...
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There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of durations of unemployment spells. We analyze the...
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assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to …
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's wages are at parity in public administration, there is a large gender wage- gap in the private sector. Lower private returns …
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constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …
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