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Les femmes sur le marché du travail aux Etats-Unis

Périvier-Timbeau, Hélène - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2008

Cet article décrit les transformations de la position des femmes sur le marché du travail aux Etats-Unis tant sous l’angle quantitatif que qualitatif, en s’appuyant sur la littérature existante. Les tendances sont mises en perspectives avec celles qu’ont connues la France et la Suède....

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Occupational Pattern, Wage Rates and Earning Disparities in India: A Decomposition Analysis

MUKHERJEE, DIPA; MAJUMDER, RAJARSHI - In: Indian Economic Review 46 (2011) 1, pp. 131-152

Inequalities in livelihood among socio-economic groups are caused by disparities in job availability, type and sector of employment and earnings there from, and transcend the boundaries of current generation through their impact on capability formation. This paper explores issues of occupational...

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On the Peculiar Relevance of a Fundamental Dilemma of Minimum-Wage Regulation in Post-Socialism - Apropos of an International Investigation

Istvan Gabor R. - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2010

To the extent minimum-wage regulation is effective in fighting against excessive earnings handicaps of those at the bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and...

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Les femmes sur le marché du travail aux Etats-Unis

Périvier-Timbeau, Hélène - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2008

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Does Part-Time Employment Widen the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Twelve European Countries

Matteazzi, Eleonora; Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

One of five workers work part-time in Europe, mainly women. This article examines the extent to which the overrepresentation of women in part-time employment explains the gender hourly earnings gap in twelve European countries. Using the EU-SILC 2009 data, a double decomposition of the gender...

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Should We Mind the Gap? Gender Pay Differentials and Public Policy

Shackleton, J. R. - 2009

Differences in the earnings of women and men are increasingly being used to justify regulation of the private affairs of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the...

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Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience

Oyer, Paul; Schaefer, Scott - 2001

We study the relationship between maximum damage awards available to plaintiffs in wrongful termination lawsuits and the returns to experience among protected workers. In our model, firms dismiss some workers for cause (as they learn about worker ability), but may also discriminate. If factors...

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Keeping Feminism in its Place : Sex Segregation and the Domestication of Female Academics

Levit, Nancy - 2006

The thesis of Keeping Feminism in Its Place is that women are being "domesticated" in the legal academy. This occurs in two ways, one theoretical and one very practical: denigration of feminism on the theoretical level and sex segregation of men and women on the experiential level intertwine to...

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Ethnic Minorities Rewarded : Ethnostratification on the Wage Market in Belgium

Vertommen, Sara; Martens, Albert - 2007

Several previous researches have confirmed the hypothesis of ethnostratification, which holds that the labour market is … divided into different ethnic layers. While people of a European origin are over-represented in the top layers (the primary … working conditions and greater job insecurity. This paper deals with a very important condition of work: the wage. Does origin …

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Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa

Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano - 1998

Few countries have higher wage inequality than South Africa, where wages of African and white workers differ by a factor of five. Using survey data collected in 1993, the authors analyze the complex effect of unions on this wage gap. Among male African workers in the bottom decile of the wage...

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