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Making the Luxembourg Labour Market Work Better

Lawson, Jeremy - 2010

, notably those who are second–earners, younger or older, or from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, the incentives …

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The determinants of job satisfaction in the Egyptian labor market

Ezzat, Asmaa; Ehab, Maye - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 4 (2019) 1, pp. 54-72

Purpose - This paper aims to analyze the determinants on job satisfaction in the Egyptian labor market, using Egypt …'s Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS), the wave of 2012. Design/methodology/approach - Several determinants are analyzed … empirical findings shed light on the importance of formalizing jobs, as it has an effect on the level of job satisfaction of …

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Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects on duration outcomes under censoring, selection, and noncompliance

Blanco, German; Chen, Xuan; Flores, Carlos; … - 2018

We consider the problem of assessing the effects of a treatment on duration outcomes using data from a randomized evaluation with noncompliance. For such settings, we derive nonparametric sharp bounds for average and quantile treatment effects addressing three pervasive problems simultaneously:...

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El mercado laboral y el problema pensional colombiano

Castaño, Hugo LóPEz; Valderrama, Francisco Lasso - Banco de la Republica de Colombia - 2012

Este artículo examina el problema que plantea la cobertura pensional de los colombianos menos educados y más vulnerables. Relaciona las tendencias del mercado laboral con la baja cobertura pensional: el sesgo del empleo urbano moderno contra los menos educados ha generado para estos un ciclo...

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How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment

Li, Xia - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2908-2920

In this study, I empirically estimate the impact of children on women's labor market outcomes (such as work status …, work hours and earnings). The identification in a female labor supply model where the fertility is endogenous comes from …'s labor supply. It also shows that the IV estimates tend to be smaller in scale than the OLS estimates using the same data …

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Seeing the World with Different Eyes

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns

Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001–02) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...

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Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

Bayer, Patrick; Ross, Stephen L.; Topa, Giorgio - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

labor market outcomes. Specifically, using Census data that characterize residential and employment locations down to the …) and when at least one individual is well attached to the labor market. These findings are robust across various … availability of neighborhood referrals has a significant impact on a wide range of labor market outcomes including employment and …

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Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections

Bayer, Patrick J.; Pintoff, Randi; Pozen, David Emanuel - School of Management, Yale University - 2004

This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other’s subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...

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Analysis of net migration between the Portuguese regions

Martinho, Vítor - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

mobility of labor. The empirical part of the work will be performed for the NUTS II and NUTS III of Portugal, from 1996 to 2002 … the NUTS II (1996-2002), which is confirmed the existence of some labor mobility in Portugal and that regional mobility is …

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