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Trade liberalization and gender inequality : can free-trade policies help to reduce gender inequalities in employment and wages?
Pieters, Janneke - 2015
Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is an important objective in itself, women's economic activity also matters as a condition for sustained economic growth. The political debate on the labor market impacts of...
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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
; secondly, wage compression is linked to labor market outcomes in terms of employment. Compressed wage structure (usually caused …
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Is there an informal employment wage penalty In Egypt?
Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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The gender gap in employment hours : do work-hour regulations matter?
Landivar, Liana Christin - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 29 (2015) 4, pp. 550-570
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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013
impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …
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The role of the wage-productivity gap in economic activity
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - In: International review of applied economics 28 (2014) 4, pp. 436-459
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Disability and labor market outcomes : disability is associated with labor market disadvantage : recent evidence points to a causal relationship
Jones, Melanie - 2016
discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment …
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Vocational training and labor market outcomes in Brazil
Reis, Maurício Cortez - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 1, pp. 377-405
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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