Similar Search Results

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879335

Workplace training in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Booth, Alison L.; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2005

This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources--the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in training incidence and relate these differences to the private costs and benefits of training, and to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002995305

Is there a glass ceiling over Europe? : exploring the gender pay gap across the wages distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002481712

Training in Europe

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829738

Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001893506

Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857

How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2006

context of globalization a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial … interaction of financial integration with volatility. -- globalization ; international trade and financial linkages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464194

How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … better risk sharing outcomes during the recent period of globalization. Developing countries have, by and large, been shut … flows may help explain why emerging markets have not been able to realize this presumed benefit of financial globalization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586563

Global business cycles : convergence or decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); … - 2008

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … of countries but divergence (or decoupling) between them. -- Globalization ; business cycles ; macroeconomic fluctuations …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003693703

Financial globalization and economic policies

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - 2009

process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816538