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employment prospects of different segments of the labour force (in terms of age, gender and educational/skill levels). The policy …This policy note examines sectoral and occupational employment impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. The crisis hit EU …-depth occupational employment patterns before and during the pandemic using detailed Labour Force Statistics, including analysis of the …
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the unemployment rate. Gender impact was noticeable especially in the employment decrease periods. For data after the year …Discrimination based on gender is commonly observed on labor markets, although its scale and symptoms are different … with regard to country and are subject to changes over time. Gender-related diverse flows on the labor market constitute …
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This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … disparities including differences of local employment offices, which are assigned to place unemployed job-seekers, are of minor …
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We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …
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This study uses household survey data to analyze the determination of sector of employment and earnings of men and …
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This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a …
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …
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the relation between changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria, which took place … recovery of the Bulgarian economy in view of the noticeable trends in the educational structure of employment in the period … with the trends being developed in other European countries in terms of the post-crisis employment of various educational …
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