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women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri … premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women …
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This paper attempts to access the effect of enterprise bargaining on women in Australia with particular reference to …
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This paper uses comprehensive data on enterprise agreements collected and maintained by ACIRRT. We examine trends in agreement making with particular reference to the relations that exist between: industry feminisation, union invelvement in agreement making, they outcomes including both average...
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two-stage least squares (TSLS) estimates. In the latter height is instrumented using proxies for health human capital … adult height is associated with wages being 1.1 percent higher for males and 0.9 per cent higher for females. The TSLS … estimates suggest each additional centimetre of adult height is associated with wages being 4.8 per cent higher for males and 10 …
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This paper carries out an analysis of wage discrimination on the basis of health on UK data with a number of important … modifications. First we control for selection into health status. Second the direct effect of health upon productivity is accounted … for and third, we examine discrimination with regard to participation as well as wages. …
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various sub-sections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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, for France, the effects children have on women?s professional life and proposes a measure of their impact on wages of … women and men in their forties. Having children does not seem to have a direct influence on women?s hourly wages, but … age group, the wages of women continuously active and men; here, the wage gap remains mostly unexplained by differences in …
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The current paper investigates whether rising inequality and changes in returns to skills can explain the pattern of wage convergence over the 1980s in Australia or whether other explanations for the observed 'slow down'in female relative wage progress should be sought.
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In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark … or register data, we find that all women are affectee by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani … women experience a double-negative effect. …
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