Showing 1 - 10 of 1,466
This study has examined the effect of remittances on the labour force participation decisions and preferences of the individuals towards different employment status and work categories. The data from the rural and urban areas of the two provincial capitals of Pakistan has been collected to cover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235982
This paper documents recent trends of the labor supply in the Dominican Republic, and inquire about factor explaining its behavior. Entails an empirical analysis of labor supply phenomena both from a point of view of participation rate and the hours dedicated to labor market. Using information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015239929
According to the 2003 National Household Survey, mean labour income for an indigenous worker is only 56% of that for a non-indigenous worker. Studies of ethnic discrimination in Peru’s labour markets generally find that discrimination is too low to explain inequalities of this magnitude....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227139
This paper analyzes how the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. affected gay and lesbian couples in the labor market. Results from a difference-in-difference model show that both partners in same-sex couples were more likely to be employed, to have a full-time contract, and to work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015260993
labor market but can also expose students to negative aspects of the working world, such as gender pay disparities. Our … paper provides first evidence of a gender pay gap in mandatory internships, with women earning up to 7% less per hour than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214134
Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214848
disparities – across occupational group, gender, job type, and region. It is observed that while inter-group disparity or vertical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215258
graduates contributes to the gender pay gap in Greece. The case of Greece is interesting as it is an EU country with … historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and one of the highest levels of occupational gender segregation among OECD … returns to academic disciplines are firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216124
residual gender wage gap, the wage gap after controlling for education, occupation, industry, and age. We find evidence for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216185
is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218248