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ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply … segregation decreases? Does the gender pay gap decline? We exploit exogenous variation in sex ratios across cohorts and regions … entered traditionally male-dominated occupations and industries, and the gender pay gap declined. These findings are …
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Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...
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Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470465
) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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-driven categorization of required skill words and construct gender associations of different skill categories using word embeddings. Next … observed gender wage gaps. We also find that large firms require a more extensive range of skills, implying that …
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The paper investigates (a) the number and structure of available jobs by gender in East and West Germany, (b) the gap … between the supply and demand of jobs by gender in both regions and (c) the reasons for the wider "job gap" in East Germany … - compared with West Germany - the considerably lower household income. …
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This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the … employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training policies. Moreover …
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on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in …
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The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article …. We first investigate their effect on total employment finding that job creation in industriesis supported by high digital …
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