disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 … using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures which capture positional movements in the distribution of earnings …. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among …

what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good … proxy for lifetime mobility. We used the Shorrocks (1978) and the Fields (2008) index. Moreover, we explored the impact of …

in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find that middle-skill occupations have traditionally been more …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill … middle-skill employment fluctuations should include industry-level employment effects and a labor force participation margin …

geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … embeddedness of self-employment. It examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are "rooted" in place and also whether those who … are more rooted in place are more likely to enter self-employment. The paper draws on large-scale panel data covering the …