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Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States : The Impact of Employers' Prejudice
Flabbi, Luca - 2013
This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...
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Racial gaps in labor market outcomes in the last four decades and over the business cycle
Cajner, Tomaz; Radler, Tyler; Ratner, David D.; … - 2017
rates from employment, and has shown little improvement over the last 40 years. Furthermore, even among those who work … the racial gaps in this involuntary part-time employment are large even after controlling for observable characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710085
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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia
Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
increasing employment among healthy people under 70. …
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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2014
Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415269
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159948
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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2006
Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China's transition - both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733553
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Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia
Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015
, and self-employment. The study points to the need for a redesign of maternity protection policy that would enable the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290972
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Realising South Africa's Employment Potential
Barnard, Geoff - 2009
regulation to strengthen competition could help expand formal sector employment. Changes in municipal laws and regulations to … ease migration and facilitate informal employment are also likely to be particularly important. Improving the … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446944
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The labor market impact of Covid-19 on Asian Americans
Mena, Chris de; Qin, Suvy; Zhang, Jing - 2023
Asian Americans faced a disproportionately larger surge in unemployment rates than other racial and ethnic groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. While existing literature typically examines labor demand channels to explain this, we instead explore a labor supply channel. Our hypothesis is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233267
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Post-crisis changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria
Syarova, Elka - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 2 (2015) 2, pp. 59-73
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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