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Explaining the MENA paradox : rising educational attainment, yet stagnant female labor force participation
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Hendy, Rana; Lassassi, Moundir; … - 2018
, Jordan and Tunisia - is constrained by adverse developments in the structure of employment opportunities on the demand side …. Specifically, we argue that the contraction in public sector employment opportunities has not been made up by a commensurate … participation in different labor market states (public sector, private wage work, non-wage work, unemployment and non …
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Perceptions of employability among London's low-paid : "self-determination" or ethnicity?
Croucher, Richard; Ramakrishnan, Sumeetra; Rizov, Marian; … - 2018
We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers' perceptions of their employability in London's labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities...
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Mexico : Human Capital Effects on Wages and Productivity
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2006
The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to...
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Labor heterogeneity and the pattern of trade
Alfonso, Cebreros Zurita Carlos - 2018
This article combines data on trade flows with a novel construction of the distribution of skill in the population, based on the results from the International Adult Literacy Survey of the OECD, to evaluate the empirical importance of the distribution of talent as a determinant of the sectoral...
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage …This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit …
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The impact of mechanisation on wages and employment : evidence from the diffusion of steam power
Ridolfi, Leonardo; Salvo, Carla; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2022
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Temporary agency work and firm performance : evidence from German establishment-level panel data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...
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Temporärbeschäftigung und Unternehmenserfolg : eine empirische Untersuchung anhand schweizerischer und deutscher Firmendaten
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Temporärbeschäftigung auf den Unternehmenserfolg empirisch unter Verwendung repräsentativer Datensätze für Unternehmen in der Schweiz respektive für Betriebe in Deutschland. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Frage gelegt, ob es...
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify...
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