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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - 2015

; secondly, wage compression is linked to labor market outcomes in terms of employment. Compressed wage structure (usually caused …

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Employment programmes for the poor and female empowerment : the effect of NREGS on gender-based violence in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Sensarma, Rudra - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 27 (2015) 2, pp. 199-218

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Do financial incentives for firms promote employment of disabled workers? : a regression discontinuity approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty In Egypt?

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...

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Labor force activity after 60 : recent trends in the Scandinavian countries with Germany as a benchmark

Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2015

In most OECD member countries labor force attachment has increased in recent years in the 60+ group. Focus in the paper is on the development in this area in Denmark, Norway and Sweden since the 1990s. The development in the same period in the German labor market is included as a frame of...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …

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Is there publication selection bias in minimum wage research during the five-year period from 2010 to 2014?

Giotis, Georgios; Chletsos, Michael - 2015

The impact of minimum wages on employment has always been a field of conflicts among economists and this divergence of … minimum wages and employment remains. This result contradicts the neoclassical theory and gives a Keynesian perspective which … suggests that changes in minimum wages are not related with positive or negative employment effects. In their analysis, the …

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The gender gap in employment hours : do work-hour regulations matter?

Landivar, Liana Christin - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 29 (2015) 4, pp. 550-570

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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means … the Vietnamese development experience. We find that while some of the difference between GDP and employment growth can be …

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Gender effects of trade openness in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wamboye, Evelyn; Seguino, Stephanie - In: Feminist economics 21 (2015) 3, pp. 82-113

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