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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … educational attainments of potential entrepreneurs do thus not suffice to increase the number of female business starters. …
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The glass door: The gender composition of newly-hired workers across hierarchical job levels
Hassink, Wolter H.J.; Russo, Giovanni - 2010
This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We find that women have a reduced chance to be hired at higher hierarchical levels. We refer to this phenomenon as the glass door. The glass door consists of an absolute and a...
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The effects of international trade on gender inequality: women carpet weavers of Iran
Karimi, Zahra - 2008
The process of economic globalization has winners and losers. Iran's carpet industry provides a good illustration of the adverse side of this process. As the production costs of its rivals have fallen, surging international trade has reduced the market share of Iran's labor-intensive products,...
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Becoming an entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - 2007
employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch. …
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Part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and the returns to experience
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Paul, Marie; … - 2011
Using data from Spanish Social Security records, we investigate the returns to experience in different flexible work arrangements, including part-time and full-time work, and permanent and fixed-term contracts. We use a trivariate random effects model which consists of a three-equation system...
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Rent sharing as a driver of the glass ceiling effect
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2012
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...
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The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking
Hospido, Laura; Laeven, Luc; Lamo, Ana - 2019
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage gap emerges between men and women within a few...
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Social Networks and the Labour Market
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022
This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks for hiring and the consequences of networks for on-the-job outcomes, including emerging...
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The gender promotion gap: Evidence from central banking
Hospido, Laura; Laeven, Luc; Lamo, Ana - 2019
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage gap emerges between men and women within a few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142109