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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859581
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Entrepreneurial talent, occupational choice, and trickle up policies
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo; Sjöström, Tomas - London School of Economics and Political Science; Ohio …; … - 2006
We study market inefficiencies and policy remedies when agents choose their occupations, and entrepreneurialtalent is subject to private information. Untalented entrepreneurs depress the returns to entrepreneurshipbecause of adverse selection. The severity of this problem depends on the outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860726
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The Impact of Bologna Process on the GraduateLabour Market: Demand and Supply
Bosio, Giulio; Leonardi, Marco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The Bologna process inspired the Italian 3+2 reform of the university system whichconstitutes a big increase in the supply of college graduates. This paper is a preliminaryattempt to identify the effects of the reform on (i) the relative probability (relative to nongraduates)of employment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353910
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size:The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ workpossibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000inhabitant-increase in the size of the individual’s province of work reduces the chances ofbeing an entrepreneur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360588
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Dividein Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Oznur - Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion - 2012
(i.e. gender, age, education level,work experience, sector of economic activity, firm size, number of other household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486881
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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision towork in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as apuzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee.Information on income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009496228
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions andEarnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
paneldata set for Serbia, this paper combines both of these issues. Estimation of gross transitionprobabilities reveals that … gender earningsgap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment,and inactivity … transitions and OLS regressions of earnings and earnings growth revealsubstantial gender differences related to individual, job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522192
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861410
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861865