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We analyse the impact of industry on non industrial production, as well as its effect on wages and employment in 6 OECD … policies, for 2009-2012, have had a negative effect on wages and development. The main conclusion is that industrialized …
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with the factors that influence a students success, ie grade, in studying business economics. As to students, universities …-Abbe-University of Applied Sciences Jena. These former students graduated between 1996 and 2011. The empirical findings suggest, that …: First, high school records are good predictors of university grades. Second, age and gender do not influence students grade …
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Based on detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pairwise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women declined dramatically in 1940-1980, decreased slightly in 1980-2000, and remained stagnant in...
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I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and recentered influence function regression methods. As the baby boom generation has moved toward the latter part of their career, earnings distribution statistics for the working age...
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Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the relationship between the output of goods and...
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. Nevertheless, in 2010, Black women with university degrees still tend to concentrate in occupations that have wages below the …
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