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Welfare differentials across French and US labour markets : a general equilibrium interpretation
Cohen, Daniel - 1999
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Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector : evidence from Sierra Leone
Harris, Jamelia - 2019
Using data from Sierra Leone, I explore the role of cognitive ability in sorting across sectors and the importance of perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development sector as a 'third sector', which is shown to...
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A logit model of labour market influences on the choice of occupation
Crockett, Geoffrey V. - 1991
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Occupational choice and development
Eeckhout, Jan; Jovanovic, Boyan - 2007
"The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output gains are U-shaped: A worldwide labor market...
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Occupational selection in multilingual labor markets
Quella, Núria (contributor); Rendón, Sílvio (contributor) - 2008
In multilingual labor markets agents with high proficiency in more than one language may be selected into occupations that require high levels of skill in communicating with customers or writing reports in more than one language. In this paper we measure this effect in Catalonia, where two...
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Occupational choice and inequality traps
Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943130
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Geschlecht, Berufswahl und Arbeitsmarkt : eine aktuelle Projektschau der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation und der Abt. Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Frauen des AMS Österr...
Putz, Sabine (ed.); Stockhammer, Hilde (ed.);  … - Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich - 2015
. Roswitha Tschenett: Zur Minimierung von Gender Gaps bei der Ausbildungs- und Berufswahl. Elli Scambor: Burschen und Care …-Berufe: Geschlechtersegregation, Barrieren und bewährte Praktiken. Petra Gregoritsch: Das Geschlecht macht einen Unterschied am Arbeitsmarkt … "Gleichstellungsindex Arbeitsmarkt": Eine Analyse des Geschlechterverhältnisses in der österreichischen Arbeitswelt. Zentrale Ergebnisse …
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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Who works for whom? : worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301202