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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various sub-sections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320832
same time, regional differences in labour market performance have grown. Raising the low employment rate of women with …
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contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with … women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of …
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Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women …, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 …-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs …
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women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …
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so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker … previous studies by not simply assessing whether women are as likely as men to perceive their pay as unfair. Instead, we use an …-related characteristics. Overall, women are as likely as men to perceive a fair wage as unfair - or an unfair wage as fair. However …
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competition has reduced the weavers’ real wages and restructured the labor force of the industry and poor Afghan immigrant … subordinate position of women carpet weavers within the household; as a form of employment, it has hardly affected the social …
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Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates...
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Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the … appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we … for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage …
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