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industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance … human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …
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This paper shows that job polarization has a persistent negative effect on employment opportunities, labor mobility and skill-to-job match quality for mid/low-skilled workers, in particular during downturns. I introduce a model generating an endogenous mapping between skills and jobs, that I...
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This paper shows that job polarization has a persistent negative effect on employment opportunities, labor mobility and skill-to-job match quality for mid/low-skilled workers, in particular during downturns. I introduce a model generating an endogenous mapping between skills and jobs, that I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840670
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps …
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year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and … cohorts, our model explains differences in all endogenous variables by gender/ethnicity for the '60-'80 cohorts based on three …
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wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective …) in order to detect and quantify the differences due to gender difference and to analyze the distribution of intergroup … concentration Kakwani has been adjusted and it has provided a high goodness grip. It is clear that the salary evolution by gender …
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the evolution of its main variables in the period 2008-2014 from a gender and age perspectives delving into the structure … a structural problem: when the fourth quarter of 2014 ended, among the people under the age of 30, the number of …
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had hit 11.0 percent, while that for women held at 8.3 percent. This 2.7 percentage point unemployment gender gap - the …
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issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not. …
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