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Transnational Youth Migration in Sfântu Gheorghe : Processes, Effects and Policy Challenges. Local Status Quo Analysis Developed Within the Project ’YOUMIG - Improving Institutiona...
Sólyom, Andrea - 2021
The Local Status Quo Analysis provides an overview of the trends in youth migration and of the related social phenomena … activities concerning youth migration. In this respect we want to characterize and typify the municipalities according to the … migratory trends they experience. The second aim is to understand the effects of youth migration, and to identify the policy …
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COVID-19 and implications for automation
Chernoff, Alex; Warman, Casey - 2021 - Last updated: May 31, 2021
COVID-19 may accelerate the automation of jobs as employers invest in technology to safeguard against pandemics. We identify occupations that have high automation potential and also exhibit a high risk of viral infection. We examine regional variation in terms of which U.S. local labor markets...
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'Ageism' as a Global Issue
Bayraktar, Murat - 2022
Ageism is defined as preconceptions, bias, and discrimination towards everyone else or self-based on age, according to the WHO (2021) report. Everyone is affected by ageism. Even children as early as four years old are aware of age stereotypes in their society. Ageism pervades our society, from...
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American Economic Nationalism : Corporatist, Neoliberal and Neocorporatist Political Strategic Responses to Contemporary Global Systemic Crises
DeDominicis, Benedict E. - 2021
The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311281
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Promoting gender equality to strengthen economic growth and resilience
André, Christophe - 2023
Women’s employment rates and wages are still lagging those of men across OECD countries, with average employment and wage gaps now around 15% and 12% respectively. Gaps narrowed at a relatively modest pace over the past decade, calling for further policy action. A lack of affordable...
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292738
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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage discrimination as it concerns differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292752
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Market orientation and gender wage gaps: An international study
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294049
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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This metastudy provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294503
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294546