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Seeing the World with Different Eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - 2008
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 3, pp. 687-708
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A Tale of Two Seasons: Participation and Medal Counts at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games
Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Ali, Ayfer - 2002
This paper examines the post-War Summer and Winter Olympic Games in order to determine the economic and political determinants of national participation, of female participation in particular, and of success at the Games (i.e., medal counts). Compared to the Summer Games, Winter participation...
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Demographic change across the globe maintaining social security in ageing economies
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2011
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labour marketspace for fifty countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low...
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Demographic Change Across the Globe - Maintaining Social Security in Ageing Economies
Peeters, Marga - 2012
This paper investigates the fiscal pressure from demographic change in relation to the labor market space for fifty … economies by five years alleviates the pressure by almost 30% and creates 10% more labor market space …
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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation
Peeters, Marga - 2012
Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants
Epstein, Gil S. - 2011
additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The …
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...
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Institutional Structure and Labor Market Outcomes : Western Lessons for European Countries in Transition
Flanagan, Robert J. - 2006
Changes in economic systems provide a rare opportunity to redesign basic institutional structures in labor markets …. This paper attempts to provide guidance for such institutional choice by drawing on the findings of recent labor market … research in market economies on the links between institutional structure and labor market performance. After considering the …
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What Do We Really Know about Offshoring? Industries and Countries in Global Production Sharing
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2017
-wage countries and in which the automation of routinized jobs offer few opportunities to reduce labor intensity. Countries that … fragmentation. In this paper, I turn to data on trade in assembly services ― a labor-intensive task that typically occurs at the end … developing countries ― reveal that most offshoring industries are relatively intensive in the employment of very low-wage labor …
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