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and family-related obligations, and discrimination. This pay gap has many implications for both the labor market and … market cannot annihilate the gap fully, thus, the labor market should undergo many changes to accept flexibility. The …
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Whereas the number of paid overtime hours declined over the last decade, a different trend can be observed for unpaid overtime work in Germany. We look at the future consequences for overtime workers, and therefore investigate the investment character of working time. We examine whether unpaid...
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This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …
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The gender earnings differential in Russia 2000-02 is examined using a nationally representative household survey. Adjusted for hours worked, women's monthly earnings are 62% of men's, and women's long-run effective wage is 69% of men's. While women's higher human capital endowments reduce the...
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labor force participation, hours, and earnings that indicate convergence by gender in worklife patterns, but less …
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis...
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-country differences focus on the impact of labor market institutions such as minimum wage laws and nationwide collective bargaining …. However, these studies neglect labor market institutions that affect women's lifetime work behavior – a factor crucially … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market …
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Can the demographic trends of increased life expectancy and decreasing birth rates, along with the labor market …
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pays (i.e. firms or employees) and how it pays (i.e. via wages and/or employment). This study is the first one to provide … regulation. Our results suggest that firms transfer entirely the cost of childcare (nearly 100%) to their workers via lower wages …
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We conduct a study of hiring bias on a simulation platform where we ask Amazon MTurk participants to make hiring decisions for a mathematically intensive task. Our findings suggest hiring biases against Black workers and less attractive workers, and preferences towards Asian workers, female...
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