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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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The gender wage gap and discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000
East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are … interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577193
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262472
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761718
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When opportunity knocks: confronting theory and empirics about dynamics of gender wage inequality
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2021
structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We … find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant … market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415093
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When the opportunity knocks : large structural shocks and gender wage gaps
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung - 2018
behavior of adjusted gender wage gaps in a wide selection of transition countries. We estimate comparable measures of adjusted … gender wage gaps for a comprehensive selection of transition countries over a period spanning nearly three decades. We … combine these estimates with measures of labor market reallocation in transition economies. We identify the episodes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964674
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Yuan and Roubles : comparing wage determination in urban China and Russia at the beginning of the new millennium
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, … - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521153
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Perceptions of Economic Insecurity : Evidence from Russia
Linz, Susan J. - 2011
Economic insecurity is an inherent characteristic of the transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121946