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Sexual orientation and labor market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) December, pp. 1-10
Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...
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Men's Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study investigates the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees in Athens, Greece. Gay employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job...
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Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
lesbians receive lower wages than comparable heterosexual employees. Whilst, the wage gap due to sexual orientation is greater … disclosed their sexual orientation at their present job receive lower wages than those who have not, but they still have higher …
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Atypische Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft (Atypical employment - Introduction)
Keller, Berndt; Nienhueser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
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Immigrant Economic Assimilation: Evidence from UK Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
We exploit a large and long longitudinal dataset to estimate the immigrant-native earnings gap at entry and over time … estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant-native earnings convergence rate. Our estimates suggest … that immigrants from more recent cohorts fare better than earlier ones at entry. Furthermore, the earnings of immigrants …
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Mind the Gap: What Gap? A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK using Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353
–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and … assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant–native earnings convergence rate … earnings of immigrants from more recent cohorts catch up faster with natives' earnings. While the convergence took over 30years …
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Sexual Orientation, Demography and Labor Relations
Drydakis, Nick - Department of Economics, University of Crete
orientation and earnings in Greece. The AAS asks male adults a direct question about their sexual orientation: about 4.52% self … wages than heterosexual workers of the same age, education, health status and occupational characteristics. Moreover, there …
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