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Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

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Wage inequality and the rise in labor force exit : the case of US prime-age men

Wu, Pinghui - 2022 - This version: September 2022

This article offers the first empirical evidence that labor force exit rates rise when workers' relative earnings fall. The model takes into account that a job not only provides economic security but also affirms a worker's social status, which is tied to their relative position in the labor...

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The emergence of procyclical fertility : the role of gender differences in employment risk

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022

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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Were Small Producers the Engines of Growth in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector in the 1980s?

Baldwin, John R. - 1998

the share of employment accounted for by small firms has increased in the past two decades. Both of these sources rely on … a simple metric--employment. This paper asks whether changes in this metric affect the view of the role that small firms … play in the growth process. The first section of the paper maintains employment as the measure that is used to evaluate the …

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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain

Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018

Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...

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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain

Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018

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The Effect of Technology and Trade on Wage Differentials between Nonproduction and Production Workers in Canadian Manufacturing

Baldwin, John R.; Rafiquzzaman, Mohammed - 1999

The 1980s and 1990s have seen a rising share of skilled labor in total employment in the manufacturing sector of Canada … composition of employment in manufacturing. The paper describes the composition of employment in manufacturing. It focuses on the …

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The impact of the Employment Equity Act on female inter-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap in South Africa

Landman, Mattie Susan; O'Clery, Neave - 2020

The Employment Equity Act No. 55 of 1998 was introduced by the South African government to address the legacy of …

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The child penalty : evidence from Spain

Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606

Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...

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Gender inequality in the labor market : continuing progress?

Blau, Francine D. - 2024

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or...

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