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Factors influencing migration of female workers : a case of Bangladesh

Sultana, Humera; Fatima, Ambreen - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-17

Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad. Investment in the shape of remittance further builds human capital, financial capital, and the social capital. The aim of this study is to analyze the trend of Bangladeshi...

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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training

Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14

This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...

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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy

Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2008

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …

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Gender discrimination before mandated quotas? : evidence from Norway; 1989 - 2002

Strøm, R. Øystein - In: Scandinavian journal of management 31 (2015) 3, pp. 303-315

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Factors influencing migration of female workers: a case of Bangladesh

Sultana, Humera; Fatima, Ambreen - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-17

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656268

Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training

Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14

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Femal Representation - Is it Important for Policy Decisions?

Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

This paper studies whether the degree of female representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may impact public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To empirically...

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What You Do in High School Matters: The Effects of High School GPA on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Earnings in Adulthood

French, Michael T.; Homer, Jenny F.; Robins, Philip K. - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2010

educational attainment and labor market earnings among a sample of young adults (ages 24-34). We estimate several models with an … and statistically significant predictor of educational attainment and earnings in adulthood. Moreover, the effects are … large and economically important for each gender. Interesting and somewhat unexpected findings emerge for race. Various …

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty In Egypt?

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...

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