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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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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries
Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81
This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...
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Industrial decline and labor reallocation in a transforming economy : Romania in early transition
Earle, John S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …
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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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Old age pensions and retirement in Spain
Vegas Sánchez, Raquel; Argimón, Isabel; Botella, Marta; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 3, pp. 273-307
In this paper we analyze the influence that incentives play in the timing of the transition to retirement in Spain. We use the Continuous Sample of Working Histories 2006 (CSWH “Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales”, in Spanish) to construct incentive measures from the Social Security...
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La población dependiente en España : estimación del número y coste global asociado a su cuidado
Albarrán Lozano, Irene; Alonso González, Pablo - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 127-163
This research tries to assess the dependents and Long Term Care costs for next years in Spain. To do this, it has been taken account data from the Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and Health Status and population forecasts estimated by INE, the legal rules passed between 2006 and 2008, and...
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Immer mehr Menschen im Rentenalter sind berufstätig
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 6, pp. 3-12
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of retirement-aged people in Germany still in employment approximately doubled to … the employment situation of older workers in Germany in an attempt to find the underlying causes of this sharp increase …. -- employment of the elderly in Germany …
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Pflegemarkt : drohendem Arbeitskräftemangel kann entgegengewirkt werden
Schulz, Erika - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 51/52, pp. 3-17
mit einer großen Lücke auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Bereich der Langzeitpflege zu rechnen. Im Jahr 2050 könnten rein … development is not inevitable. On the one hand, measures to increase labor supply, such as higher immigration, a rise in the full-employment …
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Frauen tragen immer mehr zum gemeinsamen Verdienst in Partnerschaften bei
Holst, Elke; Kröger, Lea - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 12, pp. 10-13
In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent … for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
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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