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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor …-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries is susceptible to a resource curse, and grows rapidly in response to …
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early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …-time employment, usually while attending an education institution. Three years after arrival one third of NES immigrants are now …
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early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …-time employment, usually while attending an education institution. Three years after arrival one third of NES immigrants are now …
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-seven, inquired about employment as waiters; women aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employment in retail sales. The …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.
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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia - a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...
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indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from …
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examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …
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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …
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