El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo cuantificar el grado en que hombres y mujeres se encuentran segregados en el mercado laboral español; es decir, en qué medida los asalariados se concentran en empleos de distinta naturaleza en función de su sexo. La cuestión es interesante dentro del...

This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...

We build a model where investments in human capital depend on the state of an individual's social network. We show that correlation patterns between parents' and children's human capital investment and income depend on the structure of their social network. Heavier reliance on the social network...

We present a model of labor markets that accounts for the social network through which agents hear about jobs. We show that an improvement in the wage or employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected...

A body of empirical research has arisen in labor economics concerning the apparent earnings advantage of married men relative to divorced or never married men. These differences remain even after controls are introduced for education, work experience and other determinants of earnings. Some...

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the over-education/required education/under-education literature is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for...

This paper employs Granger causality tests to identify the impacts of historical information from global financial markets on their current levels in 30-day windows. The dataset consists primarily of the daily index levels of the (1) open, (2) close, (3) intra-day high, (4) intra-day low, and...

Turkey experienced a financial crisis in 2000-2001 that led to significant financial reforms. The reforms resulted in a switch to a floating exchange rate, granted greater central bank independence and pursuit of a more credible monetary policy. Investigation of the channels of monetary policy...

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequality-adjusted gender pay gap measures...

El Perú ha experimentado un prolongado y complejo proceso de mestizaje desde el inicio de la época colonial en el siglo XVI, cuyo reflejo es un amplio espectro racial que dificulta la investigación de la discriminación racial en el mercado laboral peruano. Asimismo, el Perú ha registrado un...