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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years
Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011
The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force … participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and … in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This paper uses historical census data since 1951 and two recent Labor …
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2003
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...
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Time-Varying Occupational Contents
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011
By analyzing occupational task profiles, an occupational change can be split up into two components: (1) transferability of task portfolios between occupations and (2) change in the value of the occupation-employee match. Extending the task-based approach of Gathmann and Schönberg (2009) by...
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Mandated Wage Floors and the Wage Structure: New Estimates of the Ripple Effects of Minimum Wage Laws
Wicks-Lim, Jeanette - 2006
Minimum wage laws have become a key political issue, following on the heels of over 130 successful living wage campaigns around the country. In the debates surrounding these mandated wage floors, one recurring issue has been whether the legislation has wider-ranging impacts on wages than the...
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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
Tonin, Mirco - 2007
The paper investigates the role of the minimum wage in a competitive economy in which there is underreporting of earnings by employed labour. The minimum wage induces higher compliance by some low- productivity workers and transforms a nominally neutral fiscal system into a regressive one. A...
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Permanent and transitory wage ineguality of British men, 1975-2001: year, age and cohort effects
Kalwij, A.S.; Alessie, R. - 2003
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and remained fairly constant in the second half of the...
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The public sector wage premium in Spain : evidence from longitudinal administrative data
Hospido Quintana, Laura; Moral Benito, Enrique - 2014
Spain by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage …
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
This dissertation consists of two essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes.The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business...
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