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world, but less evidence of improvements in the gender wage gap. Using an instrumental variables strategy that relies on … and growth. Our findings are among the few that show some movement toward improvements in the gender wage gap in a …
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Since the beginning of the recent recession, the employment-population ratio for high-school age youth (16-17 years old … employment has fallen. Some earlier work emphasized labor supply explanations related to schooling and education, such as an … teen employment and participation across multiple demographic characteristics, and argues that, in addition to immigration …
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wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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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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parental household and educational attainments as well as gross hourly wages of their male and female descendants independently …. Furthermore, we shed some light on the intergenerational social mobility black box by explaining the direct effect of the income …
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This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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parental household and educational attainments as well as gross hourly wages of their male and female descendants independently …. Furthermore, we shed some light on the intergenerational social mobility black box by explaining the direct effect of the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242302
. Third, daughters have systematically worse outcomes in both relative and absolute mobility measures than sons, with a gender …This paper provides the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility in Spain based on rich administrative data … the middle between high-mobility countries such as Scandinavian countries and low-mobility ones such as the United States …
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employment convergence between foreign-born and native-born in the European Union (EU) based on the EU Labour Force Survey (EU … capital investment of the partners are tested in light of the finding that the employment rate of females born outside the EU … exceeds that of similar native-born in the Southern EU member states. -- Immigrants ; Employment ; European Union …
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