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The impact of economic growth on unemployment is commonly agreed and extensively studied. However, how age and gender … apply Okun's law, aiming to estimate age-, gender- and educational attainment level-specific unemployment rate sensitivity … output change on the unemployment rate, supporting higher effects of recessions than that of expansions, we aim to enrich …
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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the … gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … attributed to changes in (selection corrected) skill prices. The impact of movements in skill prices on the reduction in gender …
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond …
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This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in final goods separately. A gravity model is applied to disaggregated trade data over the period 1999 - 2009 for trade between EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts...
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There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of … unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of … durations of unemployment spells. We analyze the determinants of probability of leaving unemployment or the hazard rate. The …
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stage representing the risk of involuntary unemployment. The second step pertains the probability of being constrained in …
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approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …
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This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across … three surveys in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 that are unaccounted for. While the unexplained gender gap is evident across the …
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gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …
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