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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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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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The chaotic economic growth model : China

Jablanovic, Vesna D. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 89-94

economic growth model that is capable of generating stable equilibria, cycles, or chaos. This paper confirms stable economic … growth in China in the period 1980 - 2012 (www.imf.org). A key hypothesis of this work is based on the idea that the …

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Participation, growth and social poverty : social capital in a homogeneous society

Antoci, Angelo; Sacco, Pier Luigi; Vanin, Paolo - In: The open economics journal 1 (2008), pp. 1-13

We introduce social capital accumulation into a neoclassical model, showing how it differs from physical and human capital accumulation. We take the view that social capital is crucial to the enjoyment of socially provided goods and that it is mainly accumulated by means of participation to...

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Recycling of waste and downgrading of secondary resources in a classical type of production model

Hosoda, Eiji B - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 1 (2012), pp. 1-232

. It is also demonstrated that per capita consumption may not necessarily be a decreasing function of a growth rate. This …

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Trade, real exchange rate, and growth

Casares, Enrique R. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 21-35

We develop an endogenous growth model with three goods, exportable, importable and non-tradable. We study the response … of the real exchange rate and of the economy growth rate to a decrease in the tariff rate. We show that trade … liberalization must be followed by a depreciation of the real exchange rate. We deduce that the growth rate of the economy increases …

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The welfare cost of external habits : a quantitative assessment

Gómez, Manuel A. - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 1, pp. 5-26

This paper quantifies the welfare cost of consumption externalities in an endogenous growth model with habit formation … the efficient growth path is found to be very small. This result is extremely robust to variations in the parameter values … ; habit formation ; endogenous growth …

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender : parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

Göbel, Kristin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....

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Brutto größer als Netto : geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede unter Berücksichtigung von Steuern und Verteilung

Granados, Patricia Gallego; Geyer, Johannes - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 28, pp. 3-12

Trotz aller Initiativen zur Beseitigung des geschlechtsabhängigen Lohnunterschieds verdienen in Deutschland Männer weiterhin deutlich mehr als Frauen. Seit dem Jahr 2000 hat sich der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap in der Bundesrepublik nur um gut zwei Prozentpunkte reduziert, aktuell ist er damit...

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