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This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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Using micro-data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this paper seeks to answer how age, gender and … determined by these demographic profiles rather than education, skills and experience. It finds that literacy skills and tertiary … education, objective measures of skills, which are highly correlated with employment and productivity in most OECD countries, do …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women … of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women … of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161952
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women … of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979898
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women … of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992428
In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...
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the Czech labour market. The higher share of tertiary education graduates has increased the supply of skills …
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development of new birth control techniques; very pronounced changes in attitudes with respect to desired family size; changes in …
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