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Job displacement in Australia : evidence from the HILDA survey

Sila, Urban - 2019

Australia has a dynamic labour market with high job turnover. According to the HILDA Survey data, about one-fifth of all employees separate from their job every year, and about one fifth of those are displaced workers - laid off for economic reasons. Using multivariate probit regression we find...

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A short history of the gender wage gap in Britain

Bryson, Alex; Joshi, Heather; Wielgoszewska, Bożena; … - 2020

After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the adult life-cycle but remains. Within birth cohort it rises to middle age before falling again....

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Firm financing and the relative demand for labor and capital

ElFayoumi, Khalid - 2020

During both the 2008 and the COVID crises, aggregate employment in Europe and the US fell despite continuing growth in the aggregate capital stock. Using more than one million firm-year observations of small and medium European firms between 2003 and 2018, this paper introduces new stylized...

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A new measure of multiple jobholding in the U.S. economy

Bailey, Keith A.; Spletzer, James - 2020

We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple jobholders, this percentage is pro-cyclical, and has been trending upward during the past twenty...

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Gender gaps in the effects of childhood family environment : do they persist into adulthood?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

-aged boys and girls are a poor proxy for differences in skills that drive longer-term outcomes. …

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Women's earning power and the "double burden" of market and household work

Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2007

better wages for women exacerbate their 'double burden' of market and household work. …

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Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice : the (near) future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Anger, Silke; Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Grabka, … - 2009

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der...

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Rebalancing Turkey's growth by improving resource allocation and productivity in manufacturing

Atabek, Aslihan; Andrews, Dan; Gönenç, Rauf - 2017

segmentation and the outsized tail of poorly performing firms, which undermines aggregate productivity growth. Low productivity … to fall behind in productivity. Lower productivity units (“laggards”), which employ a large share of the low … innovation incentives. All firms could then achieve stronger productivity gains and the most promising firms could grow faster …

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Deskilling among manufacturing production workers

Kunst, David - 2019

manufacturing since the 1950s. They tended to work in craftsman occupations, and commanded wages even rivaling those of some white … the following decades, and declining relative craftsmen wages and employment have been associated with increasing capital … significant marketable skills. …

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Unlucky cohorts : estimating the long-term effects of entering the labor market in a recession in large cross-sectional data sets

Schwandt, Hannes; Wachter, Till von - 2018

This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force survey data. We find persistent earnings and wage reductions especially for less advantaged...

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