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Falck, Oliver; Heimisch-Röcker, Alexandra; Wiederhold, … - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 50 (2021) 7, pp. 1-17

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Top earners : cross-country facts

Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017

We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada …, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median … fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the earnings distribution becomes thicker with age, and (3) the growth …

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Le nouvel âge du capitalisme

Mélenchon, Jean-Luc (contributor) - 2000

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Fertility, employment and family policy : A cross-country panel analysis

Fluchtmann, Jonas - 2023

This paper analyses the association of labour market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 and 2019 in 26 OECD countries. While the average age of mothers at birth of their children continued to increase over the entire period, these years have been marked by an initial...

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Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...

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Mismatches between actual and preferred work time : empirical evidence of hours constraints in 21 countries

Otterbach, Steffen - 2009

This paper analyzes the discrepancy between actual and desired working hours in a multinational setting. Using the latest data of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) with a focus on work orientations hours constraints in 21 heterogeneous countries are analyzed. One major finding is...

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On the Mechanics of Trade-Induced Structural Transformation

Dessy, Sylvain; Mbiekop, Flaubert; Pallage, Stephane - 2005

Gains from trade come a certain degree of specialisation among trade partners. Specialisation in the case of an agriculture-based developing country might be feared to imply a higher reliance than ever on low skill labour. Trade might thus be seen as a step away from the much awaited structural...

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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...

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Research and policy issues in high-skilled international migration : a perspective with data from the United States

Regets, Mark C. - 2001

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of...

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An International Map of Gender Gaps

Buono, Ines; Polselli, Annalivia - 2023

This paper revisits stylized facts on female labour force participation, employment and unemployment, using a unified and up-to-date dataset with comparable information for high-income (HI) and middle-low income (MLI) countries. We find that: (i) global trends in labour supply in the last 30...

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