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The Interaction of Public Retirement Income Programs in the U.S

Powers, Elizabeth T.; Neumark, David - 2010

Theory suggests that the combined influence of the two public retirement programs in the United States - social security and SSI - encourages both SSI participation and early old-age insurance (OAI) claims under social security. Using SSI participants' social security earnings records, we find...

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Politics at Work

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar; Teso, Edoardo - 2022

We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the … micro-data and an event study are consistent with a discrimination channel. Second, we conduct an incentivized resume rating … party. Third, we conduct representative large- scale surveys of owners and workers revealing that labor market participants …

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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...

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Politics At Work

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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Family Leave and the Gender Wage Gap

Selmi, Michael - 2010

changes in their labor force behavior. In the first part of the article, I analyze the latest data and conclude that the … gender pay gap reflects both women's actual labor market behavior, which still differs from men's, and employers' exaggerated …

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Gender Dimensions of Non-Formal Employment in Colombia

Ribero, Rocio - 2003

This paper analyzed gender in the informal sector in Colombia, using the urban part of the Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida 1997, under the hypothesis that many informal women belong to this sector because it is more convenient for their childcare and house care needs. It is found that...

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The Pond Separates Cultures but Not Values : A Comparative Look at the French Codification of Right to Withdrawal of Labor and the American Concept of At-Will Employment

Wazlavek, Thomas D. Aaron - 2021

in France of the right to withdraw labor, after the “yellow vest” movement in 2018, demonstrate a parallel diminution of … that while the French right to withdraw labor is a product of legislative supremacy, and the American view within the …

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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain : Evidence from WERS 2004

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2021

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...

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Preferences, Gender Segregation and Affirmative Action

Sloane, Peter J.; Grazier, Suzanne; Jones, Richard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general provisions for affirmative action, it does apply in limited areas and pro-active measures have been suggested. In this paper we focus on gender differences in work preferences in...

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Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK

Grazier, Suzanne; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

aversion to risk will make occupational choices biased towards safer jobs. In line with DeLeire and Levy we find that women are …

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