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The paper investigates (a) the number and structure of available jobs by gender in East and West Germany, (b) the gap between the supply and demand of jobs by gender in both regions and (c) the reasons for the wider “job gap” in East Germany compared with West Germany. The paper uses data...
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We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied … by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours … in attitudes and thus also in the full-time employment of mothers with young children. …
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ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply …
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., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …
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/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis …
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demand shocks lower wages, employment and increase unemployment under equilibrium conditions. Furthermore, the results show … market although the return to pre-shock employment level depends on a number of factors related to the subsidy (such as …
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Underemployment is an important problem as unemployment for most of the developing countries. This paper aims to … examine the impact of individual as well as labor market characteristics on being underemployment in Turkey. We use micro … there is an inverse U-shaped relation between underemployment and age. Regardless of being male or female, while living in …
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thirty years, the regional file of the IAB Employment Sample (IABS-R04). By drawing segregation curves and calculating …
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thirty years, the regional file of the IAB Employment Sample (IABS-R04). By drawing segregation curves and calculating …
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