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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine started to be considered a market economy (2003). We findthat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476952
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Exploring Gender Wage “Discrimination” in South Africa, 1995-2004: A Quantile Regression Approach
Ntuli, Miracle - 2007
This paper uses quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to investigate whether a ‘glass ceiling’ exists or if instead a ‘sticky floor’ is more prevalent among the African populace in the South African ‘formal’ labour market. Furthermore, it assesses whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477123
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Earnings Disparities in the Czech Republic: Evidence of the Past Decade and Cross-National Comparison
Vecernik, Jiri - 2001
Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477159
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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477321
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El sistema de pensiones en España: una actualización tras el impacto de la pandemia: contribución del Banco de España a los trabajos de la Comisión de Seguimiento y Evaluación de l...
Hernández de Cos, Pablo; Banco de España - 2021
En 2017, el Banco de España publicó un documento ocasional (DO 1701) en el que se describía el marco institucional del sistema de pensiones, se presentaban sus principales retos a medio plazo y se analizaban algunas propuestas de reforma. En este nuevo documento, el gobernador actualiza ese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525508
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The Spanish pension system: an update in the wake of the pandemic: Banco de España contribution to the Committee on the Monitoring and Assessment of the Toledo Pact Agreements, 2 S...
Hernández de Cos, Pablo; Banco de España - 2021
En 2017, el Banco de España publicó un documento ocasional (DO 1701) en el que se describía el marco institucional del sistema de pensiones, se presentaban sus principales retos a medio plazo y se analizaban algunas propuestas de reforma. En este nuevo documento, el gobernador actualiza ese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525515
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The gender gap in financial competences
Hospido Quintana, Laura; Izquierdo Martínez, Sara; …
Artículo de revista ; The Survey of Financial Competences shows that men are better at answering financial literacy questions than women. This article documents the magnitude of the gender gap in this area, reviews the hypotheses that, according to the academic literature, might explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525883
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Asset Allocation for Retirement: Simple Heuristics and Target-Date Funds
Dolvin, Steven D; Templeton, William K.; Rieber, William - 2010
We examine common asset allocation strategies for retirement investing, considering both static and dynamic approaches … their clients until approximately 10 years prior to a client's retirement, at which point a more conservative allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462179
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Retirement behaviour and retirement incentives in Spain
Vegas Sánchez, Raquel; Argimón Maza, Isabel; Botella … - 2009
In this paper we analyse the role that Social Security wealth and incentives play in the transition to retirement in … at old age and investigate the role played by such incentives and by other socio-economic variables on the retirement … stricter in general. We carry out a dynamic reduced-form analysis of the retirement decision using a duration model. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530258
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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume V, tape 1
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1988
of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks about: accounting tools, Fiat car designers, Japan and retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429635