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Government Effectiveness and Regional Variation in Informal Employment

Jonasson, Erik - 2011

This paper analyses the role of government effectiveness in the determination of informal employment. A theoretical model is developed, in which local governance and worker skill level are assumed to influence the decision of the worker whether to seek employment in the formal or informal...

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Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education

Katz, Eliakim; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001

power in relation to education and migratory patterns of minorities. …

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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...

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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People

Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004

Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...

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Even education and experience has its limits: Closing the wage gap

Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2014

Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...

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Job quality in segmented labor markets: The Israeli case

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

common among the more vulnerable sub-populations of new-immigrants, disabled individuals, Israeli-Arabs, foreign-workers and …

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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...

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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden: The impact of skill mismatch

Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - 2006

We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less...

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