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Is There A Glass Ceiling in Morocco? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data

Nordman, Chrisophe; Wolff, Francois-Charles - 2007

According to the glass ceiling hypothesis evidenced in developed countries, there existlarger gender pay gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution. In this paper, we investigate therelevance of a glass ceiling effect in Morocco using a matched worker-firm data set of more than8000...

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The benefits are at the tail: uncovering the impact of macroprudential policy on growth-at-risk

Galán Camacho, Jorge E. - 2020

Este estudio une los desarrollos recientes sobre la metodología de crecimiento en riesgo con la literatura sobre evaluaciones de impacto de la política macroprudencial. Para ello, extiendo el uso de regresiones cuantílicas del crecimiento del PIB con el objetivo de incluir variables...

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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010

We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...

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Accounting for changes in the Spanish wage distribution : the role of employment composition

Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Ortega, A. … - 2011

A pesar de una rápida disminución del desempleo, los salarios reales en España apenas aumentaron durante el periodo 1995-2006. Una posible explicación de este comportamiento se refiere a la importancia de los efectos composición derivados de algunos cambios estructurales, tales como el...

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A house price-at-risk model to monitor the downside risk for the Spanish housing market

Ganics, Gergely; Rodríguez-Moreno, María

Este artículo presenta un modelo at-risk para el precio de la vivienda que se ajusta a los desarrollos históricos observados en el mercado residencial español. Por medio de regresiones cuantílicas, mostramos que un modelo que contiene la tasa de crecimiento trimestral del precio de la...

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Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Social Norms and Partner Supply

Richards, Seth O. - 2010

--peer-group norms and partner availability--using a national sample of high school students. I develop and estimate an equilibrium …-specific characteristics such as sibling structure and age of menarche, and the regressions include school-by-grade fixed effects. This … analysis demonstrates that school-based social interactions have a large effect on sexual initiation. Second, I estimate the …

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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents

Farivar, Leila - 2010

old. The results of the estimation using this set of instruments show positive and significant effect on early school …This dissertation is a collection of three essays on high school dropout by adolescents and the roll of their siblings … in this risky behavior. Dropping out of high school can scar the individual for his entire labor supply period with lower …

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Earnings Disparities in the Czech Republic: Evidence of the Past Decade and Cross-National Comparison

Vecernik, Jiri - 2001

Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. In...

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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand

Liu, Amy - 2005

This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...

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Using STELLA System Dynamic Model to Analyze Greenhouse Gases' Emission From Solid Waste Management in Taiwan

Horng, Jao-Jia; Lee, R.F.; Liao, K.Y. - 2008

Using a system dynamic model (SDM), such as STELLA, to analyze the waste management policy is a new trial for Taiwan … past data, we found these models reasonably represent the situation in Taiwan. However, SDM can program many scenarios and …

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