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The Labour Market in Korea : Enhancing Flexibility and Raising Participation

Jones, Randall - 2005

This paper analyses the increasing dualism in the Korean labour market and the need to encourage greater labour force participation. Although the rising proportion of non-regular workers lowers labour costs and increases employment flexibility, it has a negative impact on both equity and...

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Sustaining Growth in Korea by Reforming the Labour Market and Improving the Education System

Jones, Randall - 2009

A well-functioning labour market is essential to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of population ageing. Priorities are to reverse the rising share of non-regular workers, which has negative implications for both growth and equity, and encourage greater employment of women and youth, who...

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Realising South Africa's Employment Potential

Barnard, Geoff - 2009

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less-skilled blacks. The legacies of apartheid can explain part of the increase in labour supply and inability of the economy to absorb it which produced the extreme levels of unemployment,...

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Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Cribb, Jonathan; Joyce, Robert; Wernham, Thomas - 2022

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a quarter-century earlier. We show that this apparent...

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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021

Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

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Labor market distortion and its impact on wage inequality in the modernization of small-scale agriculture

Wang, Dianshuang; Xiaochun, Li; Hu, Zixin; Yuan, Run - In: International journal of economic theory 19 (2023) 4, pp. 988-1007

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Building bridges and widening gaps : wage gains and equity concerns of labor market expansions

Bütikofer, Aline; Løken, Katrine V.; Willén, Alexander - 2020

We exploit the construction of the Öresund bridge, which connects a medium-sized city in Sweden to the capital of Denmark, to study the labor market effects of gaining access to a larger labor market. Using unique cross-country matched registry data that allow us to follow individuals across...

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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses

Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 1999

For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...

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GENDER AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PAY AND PROMOTION FOR NHS NURSES

Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

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Big-Box Benefits : The Targeting of Giants in a National Campaign to Raise Work Conditions

Lobel, Orly - 2007

Wal-Mart matters to the form and substance of law and social reform in several distinct ways. This article describes Wal-Mart as serving three key purposes - as target, symbol, and model - in the contemporary social reform landscape. First, Wal-Mart, the largest employer in the United States is...

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