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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Labour market expectations and unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …
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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020
Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … the taste-based mechanism might better explain ethnic discrimination in hiring. … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256131
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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261669
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The accessibility to Employment Offices in the Spainish labour market
Suárez, Patricia; Mayor, Matías; Cueto, Begoña - 2010
The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575167
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The impact of the post-Brexit migration system on the UK labour market
Portes, Jonathan; Springford, John - 2023
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represents a major structural change … suggests that, although migration overall is currently running at least at pre-pandemic levels, the post-Brexit migration … remains a substantial "shortfall" in migration for work, even taking of the impact of the pandemic. However, these impacts …
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Migration and productivity in the UK : an analysis of employee payroll data
Nam, Hoseung; Portes, Jonathan - 2023
-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366872
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Unintended consequences? : the changing composition of immigration to the UK after Brexit
Portes, Jonathan - 2024
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent the most important changes … to the UK migration system in half a century. Coinciding with the aftereffects of the pandemic, the result has been very … migration trends on the UK economy and labour market, distinguishing between different sectors. …
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2021
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321244
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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001528504