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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings between formal and informal … and considering self-selection of individuals into different employment types, we find a significant informal employment …
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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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This paper studies the role of government policies to stimulate female labor demand in gender imbalanced labor markets … mostly on firms. Second, I provide compelling evidence of long-lasting growth in female employment and a drop in the average … non-employment duration of women entering unemployment insurance after the reform. Third, despite the time-limited nature …
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labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …
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labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap. … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171093
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …
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Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149169
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161696