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This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …
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exacerbated by pandemic-induced retirements and gender disparities in employment. Shifts in migration patterns further shaped …
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This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select a particular labor market status and/or a source of personal income. It also analyzed the different types of work these PWDs engage in and their association with levels of...
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Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …
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Analyses in this paper do not support the idea that job and worker flows have become more intensive and have deteriorated working conditions in the Finnish business sector. The magnitude of flow has in fact been rather stable since 1997. However, job flows are at a quite high level, as some 10%...
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The paper investigates (a) the number and structure of available jobs by gender in East and West Germany, (b) the gap between the supply and demand of jobs by gender in both regions and (c) the reasons for the wider "job gap" in East Germany compared with West Germany. The paper uses data from...
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There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …
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model of occupational age structure, its determinants and their impact on employment and re-employment opportunities for … show firstly that education, skills, training requirements and the compensation structure affect employment and re-employment … exert a clear-cut influence on employment and re-employment at older ages. Our findings suggest that future labor market …
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In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...
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market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid … employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to …
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