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Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?

Schettkat, Ronald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women …

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Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain: Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey

O'Leary, Nigel; Murphy, Philip D.; Latreille, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour … decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or … accounting for regional differences in both employment and economic inactivity rates. …

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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …

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Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy

Giannelli, Gianna C.; Braschi, Cristina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

work neutralising their beneficial effects on employment, has been envisaged by those opposing such policies. We … the policies aiming at reducing the normal working day may have positive employment effects. …

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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...

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Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

important impetus to plant survival and employment growth. We also discover some differences in terms of the effectiveness of … grants between foreign multinationals and domestic plants. Specifically, while grants have helped to stimulate employment …

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New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market

Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...

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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations

Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment … well as in new firms and those going out of business, using a count regression model applied to proportions. Employment … on youth employment without decomposing it by type of worker flow. …

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“Titulados superiores y éxito laboral: determinantes”

Saez, Felipe; Sanjuán, Ana - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2006

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