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Decomposition of gender wage differentials in Iran: an empirical study based on household survey data

Razavi, Seyed Moaven; Habibi, Nader - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 185-204

In this study we investigate the magnitude of wage discrimination against women in the Iranian labor market by … decomposing the male-female wage differential into differences in human capital and wage discrimination. We use the Oaxaca … significant share of wage differentials is attributable to discrimination. Furthermore the gender difference in the quality of …

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A Premium for a Degree in Engineering: An Estimation of Returns to the Field-Specific Education in Russia

Denisova, Irina; Kartseva, Marina - In: Applied Econometrics 5 (2007) 1, pp. 30-57

medicine — in terms of wage and employment stability based on The Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. We find a significant … variation in returns to majors with the highest positive wage premiums in engineering, for both males and females, and to higher …

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Enriching U.S. labor results in a multi-regional CGE model

Carrico, Caitlyn; Tsigas, Marinos - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 268-281

This paper proposes a new approach for enriching results for U.S. labor markets from the leading multi-regional CGE model, the GTAP model. Departing from the usual approach of expanding labor data in all economies in a model's database, our method expands only the U.S. labor data. Additionally,...

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Schooling returns for wage earners in Burkina Faso : evidence from the 1994 and 1998 national surveys

Kazianga, Harounan - 2004

. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main … control for both selection in the wage sector and sector choice leads to biased estimates based on my identification of the …

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Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle:New Evidence from Internal Migration

Saks, Raven E.; Wozniak, Abigail - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: longdistancemigration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a birds eye view ofworker reallocation in the economy as long-distance migrants often change jobs oremployment status, altering...

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On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects inUnemployment Compensation

Ortega, Javier; Rioux, Laurence - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitledto unemployment insurance (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees areeither eligible for UI or UA upon future separations. Eligibility for UI requires a minimumduration of contributions and...

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Capital and Productivity: A New View

Boskin, Michael; Lau, Lawrence - 1992

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How Changes in Labor Demand Affects Unemployed Workers

Burdett, Kenneth - 1980

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

thewage mechanism are in general not independent. The wage mechanism determines both thedistribution of networks that can … arise and the number of matches on a given network.Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in terms of …

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Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel ofEstablishments: A Structural Approach

Ejarque, João Miguel; Portugal, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Ourestablishment level data displays an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels arelargely constant throughout our sample...

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