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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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relative contraction in credit supply, associated with lower average wages and employment. These effects are heterogeneous … construct a novel dataset that links worker employment histories to firm financials and banking relationships in Germany. Firms … within and between firms. Within firms, initially lower-paid workers are more likely to leave employment, while initially …
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300577
Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
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shortages and current employment. Contrary to other survey-based measures of labor market conditions and the vacancy …
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status - not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment - and earnings for each of the … three employment sectors. We find that while skilled labor's pattern of reallocation into the public sector remains roughly … changes coincide with the erosion of the returns to observed skills in the private sector and self-employment, while the …
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shortages and current employment. Contrary to other surveybased measures of labor market conditions and the vacancy …
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This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural … participation. Relative wage changes between rural and urban areas have been driven largely by shifts in employment, notably into …
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; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …
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