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This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some...
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This paper reviews important aspects of gender labour market inequalities in four European Union countries. It shows that individual countries differ in many aspects of gender discrimination. It seems that contributing factors to these differences are the national social and economic structures,...
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langer Zeit bestehende Phänomen der weit über dem Durchschnitt liegenden Arbeitslosigkeit der Jugendlichen deutlicher … Ausbildung vorliegt, weisen Jugendliche eine viel höhere Arbeitslosigkeit auf als Erwachsene. In solchen Ländern allerdings, in … dem Durchschnitt liegende Arbeitslosigkeit der Jugendlichen allein auf Qualifizierungsdefizite zurückgeführt werden …
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other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force … changes in aggregate economic indicators and underlying microeconomic adjustments. This paper employs matched labor force … survey data to focus on the magnitude and determinants of the labor market flows associated with the fall in industrial …
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A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and … thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We … also characterised by high flows into and out of employment, implying that most unemployment spells are rather short and …
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Youth unemployment in Germany has fallen to its lowest level since German reunification. Between 2005 and 2012 …, unemployment among under 25 year olds has more than halved. By international standards, Germany is in an exceptionally good … position. Nowhere in Europe is youth unemployment lower. However, this is not so much due to structural improvements or …
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unemployment to employment significantly increases probability of moving up and decreases probability of moving down. Technical …
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offspring improve their position on the labor market across generations. -- intergenerational income mobility …
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This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native...
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