employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … increase in real hourly wages in the post-law period in four of the five sectors examined. Our results also suggest that whilst … intensive margin in certain sectors. We also find that in three of the five sectors, increases in real hourly wages were …

highlight that any expected disproportionate impact of economic liberalization on women is more likely to come from civil …

, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … employed men and women who tend to be well-educated. The consequences of this dramatic segmentation of labor market … of employed women, among other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns …

Despite all initiatives to eliminate the gender pay gap in Germany, men continue to earn considerably more than women … OECD countries. The yawning gap between men and women's pay is particularly evident when we look at average gross monthly … income: in western Germany, men have a 62 percent higher gross monthly income than women, on average. In eastern Germany, men …

This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production. It is the biggest single influence on life … satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also … affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …

users were (3-8 YDTIA criteria) 34.7%. Men were more likely to be addicted to the Internet than women, and Internet addicted …, divorced status, poor grades, and accessing the Internet outside of the home. The results of this study will allow health …

decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. -- health inequality …

assist health policy making, there was an investigation of how demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors determine … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal … health services by at least 2 times at 1 percent level of significance whilst access to information increases the odds by 1 …