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This paper uses evidence on employment, labor force, and wage differentials by education from OECD countries to investigate the characteristics and the consequences of a skill-biased shift in the structure of labor demand and supply. The empirical analysis shows that there has been some increase...
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We examine wages in jobs taken by those out of work--entry jobs--and the characteristics of the individuals who fill them. There are large entry wage gaps relative to other jobs. More importantly, real entry wages have fallen by around 20 log points relative to all other jobs since 1979....
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This paper attempts, for the first time for the UK, to analyse the earnings of homosexuals and test for the possible existence of sexual orientation discrimination by using decomposition analysis. Homosexuals are identified as individuals living with 'same-sex partners'. Gay men and lesbians in...
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In this paper, the impact that receipt of unemployment benefit has on job-search effort is investigated. Utilizing data drawn from the 1984 Labor Force Survey, reduced-form search-effort equations are estimated conditional on the decision to seek work. After controlling for potential selectivity...
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