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Effectiveness of Government Interventions at Labour Markets — The Case of Women and Youth in Serbia
Zubovic, Jovan; Domazet, Ivana - 2013
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of active labour market policies on two largest vulnerable groups at Serbian labour market — women and youth. By means of adapting methodology of other authors we concentrate on in-depth empirical research within the target groups to determine what...
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Does access to free pre-kindergarten increase maternal labor supply?
Ilin, Elias; Shampine, Samantha; Terry, Ellyn - 2022
In this paper, we evaluate the effects of free pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs on the labor force participation (LFP) of mothers. We use variation in pre-K rules across all US states, including income eligibility requirements in some states. To estimate the causal effects of access to pre-K on...
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Does Access to Free Pre-Kindergarten Increase Maternal Labor Supply?
Ilin, Elias; Shampine, Samantha; Terry, Ellyn - 2021
In this paper we evaluate the effects of free pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) programs on thelabor force participation of mothers. We use variation in Pre-K rules across all U.S.states, including income eligibility requirements in some states. To estimate the causaleffects of access to pre-K on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321568
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Is it Possible to Be an Affirmative Action Employer and an Equal Opportunity Employer at the Same Time? A Chatgpt Answer
McGee, Robert W. - 2023
Can an employer be both an affirmative action employer and an equal opportunity employer at the same time, or are the two positions contradictory and mutually exclusive? This question was asked to ChatGPT. The response was nuanced and somewhat left-leaning and is reported in this study
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The Labor Demand Curve Is… Upward Sloping? The Wage Effects of Immigration and Women's Entry into the US Labor Force, 1960-2010
de Brauw, Alan - 2014
The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that … immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … of the US economy and estimates a wage elasticity of -0.4 with respect to immigration. In this paper, we replicate and …
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz - 2021
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317604
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Secure communities as immigration enforcement : how secure is the child care market?
Ali, Umair; Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2022
immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and functioning of the child care market. Relying on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471483
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Limited Legal Recourse for Older Women's Intersectional Discrimination Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
McLaughlin, Joanne Song - 2018
Older women compose a large share of labor force in the U.S. There are two federal statutes that can provide protection for older women against employers' discriminatory behavior: the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (Title VII). Theories and...
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Gendered impact of COVID-19 pandemic on transitioning from university to labor market : evidence from Turkey
Demirel-Derebasoglu, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions in the labor market. Turkey implemented a worker dismissal ban to mitigate the adverse effects, effective from April 2020 to June 2021. The pandemic and unveiled measures put pressure against recent university graduates' successful...
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