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Gender-Based Employment Segregation : Understanding Causes and Policy Interventions
Das, Smita; Kotikula, Aphichoke - 2019
Employment segregation—the unequal distribution of female and male workers across and within jobtypes—is often at the heart of gender gaps in job quality, wage and employment trajectories. Employment segregation carries important costs for the economy, particularly in countries facing a...
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A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics in Internal Labor Markets
Gibbons, Robert - 1998
We attempt to explain employment practices in internal labor markets using models that combine job assignment, on-the-job human-capital acquisition, and learning. We show that a framework that integrates these familiar ideas captures a number of recent empirical findings concerning wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472351
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Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill
Kremer, Michael - 1996
Evidence from the US, Britain, and France suggests that recent growth in wage inequality has been accompanied by greater segregation of high- and low-skill workers into separate firms. A model in which workers of different skill-levels are imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473120
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How Much Does Sorting Increase Inequality?
Kremer, Michael - 1996
Social commentators from William Julius Wilson to Charles Murray have argued that increased sorting of people into internally homogeneous" neighborhoods,schools, and marriages is spurring long-run inequality. Cali- bration of a formal model suggests that these fears are misplaced. In order to...
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Macroeconomic Adjustment with Segmented Labor Markets
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 1994
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of fiscal and labor market policies in a small open developing country. The basic framework considers an economy with a large informal production sector and a heterogeneous work force. The labor market is segmented as a result of efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474150
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Labor Market Segmentation Theory : Reconsidering the Evidence
Dickens, William T. - 1992
We argue that Labor Market Segmentation theory is a good alternative to standard views of the labor market. Since it is … sometimes argued that labor market segmentation theory is untestable, we first consider the uses of theory and the attributes of … a good theory. We then argue that labor market segmentation has these attributes. It is internally consistent and is …
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Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
Lang, Kevin - 1992
This paper briefly reviews the empirical evidence on labor market segmentation and presents some new results on the similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be understood in a labor market segmentation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474906
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Work Incentives and the Demand for Primary and Contingent Labor
Rebitzer, James B. - 1991
This paper presents an incentive-based dual labor market model. Three implications of the model are emphasized. First, in equilibrium, there is an excess supply of workers to primary jobs. Second, when demand is uncertain, firms may choose a mix of primary and contingent workers to perform the...
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Transactions Costs and Internal Labor Markets
Rosen, Sherwin - 1987
theory as a conceptual framework for this problem. The analysis suggests that an internal labor market must be viewed in a …
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A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory
Dickens, William T. - 1987
We subject our dual labor market model to a goodness of test fit and compare the results with those obtained using a single equation model with a complex error structure. The dual labor market does an excellent job of predicting the wage distribution except for failing to explain bunching at...
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