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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career : Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey

Pastore, Francesco - 2013

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2021

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The heterogeneous employment outcomes of first- and second- generation immigrants in Belgium

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Optimal policy in models of search unemployment with frictions and externalities

Schuster, Philip - 2012

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