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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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Uni, Fachhochschule oder Ausbildung : welche Fächer bringen die höchsten Löhne?
Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 13, pp. 3-8
verglichen, zum anderen auch die ähnlicher Fachrichtungen über die Qualifikationen hinweg. Ergebnis: Ein Studium lohnt sich in … den meisten Fachrichtungen. In einigen Fächern kann aber auch mit einer beruflichen Ausbildung ein relativ hoher Lohn … Abiturienten einen Lohn erwarten, der über dem Durchschnittslohn von Personen mit Abitur insgesamt liegt. Die technischen und …
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Good workers for good jobs : improving education and workforce systems in the US
Holzer, Harry J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Stagnant earnings and growing inequality in the US labor market reflect both a slowdown in the growth of worker skills … help raise worker earnings and reduce inequality. -- education ; workforce ; good jobs …
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Higher education externalities in Egyptian labor markets
Nazier, Hanan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 193-217
Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with governorate level data, this paper estimated the external return to …
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Optimal work effort, income and wage
Todorova, Tamara - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 121-137
We study work effort with its various determinants such as the educational level of the worker, the minimum or start-up salary as well as the initial endowment of the worker. By means of optimization we find that optimal work effort depends directly on the initial income available to the worker,...
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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt
Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201
This paper utilizes a joint (ordered probit) occupational attainment and wage determination model to examine the channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors of ownership in Egypt. Using a large data set drawn from...
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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile
Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242
In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these distributions into age, year and cohort effects....
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How does the labour's market dynamic influence the level of the public pension in Romania in the actual economic context?
Bîlbîe, Ioana - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 20 (2013) 5, pp. 107-114
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Labor studies journal : official journal of the University and College Labor Education Association
University and College Labor Education Association - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage; anfangs: University Park, …; … - 1.1977 -
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The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of...
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