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Gender gaps from labor market shocks
Ivandic, Ria; Lassen, Anne Sophie - 2023
Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a...
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The Czech labour market : documenting structural change and remaining challenges
Araújo, Sónia; Maleček, Petr - 2015
time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399349
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The Gender Gap Reloaded : Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2005
This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and the tails of the wage distribution using quantile regression. We also examine the importance of school quality indicators in predicting future labor market performance. We...
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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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The Gender of Precarious Employment in Canada
Cranford, Cynthia J - 2010
This article examines the relationship between gender, forms of employment and dimensions of precarious employment in Canada, using data from the Labour Force Survey and the General Social Survey. Full-time permanent wage work decreased for both women and men between 1989 and 2001, but women...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604711
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607746
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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191278
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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083707
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Polarisation or Jobless Growth? Structural Changes and Employment Trends in the Indian Labour Market : Evidence from the National Sample Survey
Gupta, Pallavi - 2021
Using the Indian National Sample Surveys and Participatory Labour Force Survey this paper presents a descriptive analysis of the role of education, occupation, wages and intersectoral movement of labour on the evolving demand for skills over the period of 1999-00 to 2017-18. First, the paper...
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