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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2018
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors driving the labor market gaps of unemployed men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887
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Unequal distribution of salary from a gender perspective and the impact of recession on the Catalan labor market
Gómez Adillón, M. Jesús; Cabasés Piqué, M. Àngels - 2014
In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...
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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam's 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the...
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The Labor Demand Curve Is… Upward Sloping? The Wage Effects of Immigration and Women's Entry into the US Labor Force, 1960-2010
de Brauw, Alan - 2014
The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative effects on native wages. On the latter side of...
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517855
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013281272
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Labor market discrimination : are women still more secondary workers?
Rembeza, Jerzy; Radlińska, Kamila - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 1, pp. 77-97
Discrimination based on gender is commonly observed on labor markets, although its scale and symptoms are different with regard to country and are subject to changes over time. Gender-related diverse flows on the labor market constitute one of its symptoms. The paper’s main objective was to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505558
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa : the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507715