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The gender pay gap in informal employment in Poland
Rokicka, Magdalena; Ruzik, Anna - 2010
This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors … verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the … formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses of available data show that size and characteristics of gender pay gap …
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Costs and beneftis of temporary contracts
Engellandt, Axel - 2005
Applying data from 13 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (1991-2003) I assess costs and benefits of fixed-term contracts. First, I analyze the existence of a contract related wage gap and the effort response of temporary employees in terms of unpaid overtime hours. Second, I investigate...
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Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Developments in the New EU Member States
Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine; Ward, Terry - 2004
· Job creation in the new EU Member States (NMS) and the EU candidate countries remains low despite high GDP growth in most countries. However, there are significant differences in developments among these countries (most recently between Poland and the other new Member States). · Labour...
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The effects of collective bargaining on firm performance: New evidence based on stochastic production frontiers and multiply imputed German establishment data
Jensen, Uwe; Rässler, Susanne - 2007
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on the effects of collective bargaining on the performance of German establishments. We include the analysis of firms' efficiency and we model productivity and efficiency simultaneously. Confronted with 25 % observations with missing values,...
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Microeconometric Analyses on Economic Consequences of Selective Migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Wage diversity in the euro area - an overview of labour cost differentials across industries
Genre, Véronique; Momferatou, Daphne; Mourre, Gilles - 2005
This Paper provides an overview of the magnitude of sectoral wage differentials in the euro area as a whole. Even when adjusting for structural sectoral features such as the skill structure or the proportion of part-timers, average wage levels in services are substantially lower than in...
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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Changes in the Structure of Employment in the EU and Their Implications for Job Quality
Macias, Enrique F.; Stehrer, Robert; Ward, Terry - 2009
analysis of differences with respect to job quality and changes in job quality for a number of other dimensions, such as gender …
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Effects of Foreign Ownership on Innovation Activities - Empirical Evidence for 12 European Countries
Falk, Martin - 2008
In the present study we investigate the relationship between foreign ownership and innovation activities using the firm-level data of the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS) covering 12 European countries. Probit estimates based on 28,000 firms observations show that foreign owned firms are...
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