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Multiple violations of labor market regulations : patterns in the Peruvian labor market and the impact of enforcement
Viollaz, Mariana - 2019
This paper quantifies labor law violations and how the enforcement efforts impact on the compliance level by considering the possibility of different labor regulations being violated simultaneously. The findings for the Peruvian labor markets over the period 2004-2013 indicate that: (i) multiple...
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A Generation in Waiting for Jobs and Justice : Young People Not in Education Employment or Training in North Africa
Abbott, Pamela - 2017
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How labour market outcomes reflect age, gender and skills in Korea
Pareliussen, Jon - 2022
Using micro-data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this paper seeks to answer how age, gender and childbirth are reflected in literacy proficiency, employment prospects and pay, and to which extent labour market outcomes are determined by these demographic profiles rather than...
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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...
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An Indian enigma? : labour market impacts of the world's largest livelihoods program
Deshpande, Ashwini; Khanna, Shantanu; Walia, Daksh - 2023
We examine the labour market impacts of the largest livelihoods programs in the world, India's Deendayal Antyodaya …-help groups (SHGs). We combine administrative data on SHG membership across districts in India with survey micro-data on labour …
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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...
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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147015
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Policies for making the Chilean labour market more inclusive
Caldera Sánchez, Aida - 2014
Economic growth and recent policy reforms have increased employment and reduced overall poverty in Chile. Yet there are … some groups that remain at the margins of the labour market and could benefit from and contribute more to growth. Women and … the benefits of growth. These include expanding childcare, promoting a more flexible labour market and strengthening …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374406
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Employment Adjustments Around Childbirth
Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2016
Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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Greedy jobs, labour market institutions, and the gender pay gap
Sobeck, Kristen - 2023
Previous research argues that occupational gender pay gaps arise from greedy jobs within occupations. Individuals employed in greedy jobs are not easily substitutable. They work long hours at unpredictable times of the day that engender compensating differentials resulting in an earnings to...
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