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bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the …
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This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...
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to adverse employment effects, we expect there are downside risks for youth and low skilled workers' employment. As …
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Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these …
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as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and selff-employment, as well as reservation … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
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as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and self-employment, as well as reservation … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
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track on the means by which individuals find employment, the time it takes to find their first stable job and their earnings …
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With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a status quo that differed markedly from women in both developed western and traditional developing economies. They enjoyed an equal or higher level of education than men, virtually no...
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