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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507087
Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …
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participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299768
Work experience is a key variable in earnings function estimates and wage gap decompositions. Because data on actual work experience are rare, studies commonly use proxies, such as potential experience. But potential experience is identical for all individuals of the same age and level of...
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different income levels. Combining these with employment data in 87 economies, the results show that occupations in low- and …
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in the U.S. Early analyses of skill-related differences compared the earnings of workers across occupations. The general consensus of these investigations was that skill premiums...
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-generation immigrants and their French native counterparts. Second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment …-European origins do not differ significantly from their French native counterparts. The employment gap between French natives and …
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