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What can wages and employment tell us about the UK's productivity puzzle?
Blundell, Richard W.; Crawford, Claire; Jin, Wenchao - 2013
This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have fallen significantly within jobs. Why? One possibility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752196
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Post-crisis changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria
Syarova, Elka - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 2 (2015) 2, pp. 59-73
The report explores the main impact of the crisis on the Bulgarian labor market whereby the key points are focused on the relation between changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria, which took place under the influence of the crisis, and the trends of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534117
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Young adults and labor markets in Africa
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Smurra, Andrea; … - 2021
the size of their cohort is large. Building on existing evidence on the impacts of interventions targeting both the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803752
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A rapid road to employment? : the impacts of a bus rapid transit system in Lima
Scholl, Lynn; Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; … - 2018
Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955665
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A rapid road to employment? : the impacts of a bus rapid transit system in Lima
Scholl, Lynn; Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; … - 2018
Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960861
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Connecting to economic opportunity? : the role of public transport in promoting women's employment in Lima
Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Salgado, Edgar; … - 2018
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955688
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136575
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COVID-19 and the employment gender gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612860
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COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658290
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Growing importance of women in the German labor market
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2014) 5, pp. 51-61
An increasing share of the working-age population is active in the German labor market. In particular, the number of …. Regardless of their qualifications, women's willingness to participate in the labor market has risen appreciably in all age … groups. Among men, this was largely only the case in older age groups. The number of female employees has increased almost …
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