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This paper investigates the differential impact of employment in agriculture on rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly labor force survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). We estimate the wage equation for rural and non-rural workers controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655810
Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second …, wage compensation for commuting is lower for women after the birth compared to men: about 3 − 4 percentage points of the …
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This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between … husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they … differences in commuting patterns. A conditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicates that short commutes are strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897236
Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of … evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come into existence at the same moment: when the first child is born. Second …, wage compensation for commuting is lower for women after the birth compared to men: about 3-4 percentage points of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323799
This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between … husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they … differences in commuting patterns. A conditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicates that short commutes are strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156985
This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban-rural wage and employment disparities and … increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are … rural areas, as well as between capital and other cities is significantly narrowed by commuting in some cases but remains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064348
This paper investigates the differential impact of employment in agriculture on rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly labor force survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). We estimate the wage equation for rural and non-rural workers controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725542
We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour … than the openly unemployed. In this case, this is due to the relatively higher probability of commuting that predominates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571671
Over the past decades, commuting has become more and more important as a means for labor market adjustment. This is … reflected in increasing commuter shares and distances. Nevertheless, identifying the determinants of commuting distances is by … no means straightforward due to complex job and housing decisions. We argue that commuting results from a two …
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with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and different CZ-industry pairs. About half of the variation in mean wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337820