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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118773
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2012
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113823
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
sector employment, geographic location, firm size, industry of employment and their contribution to wage inequality. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131425
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
sector employment, geographic location, firm size, industry of employment and their contribution to wage inequality. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131950
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?
Tansel, Aysit - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014039
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?
Tansel, Aysit - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014958
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The economic progress of American Jewry: from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … Jewish women and 28 percent of non-Jewish white women were in professional jobs. Differences by gender were smaller than …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269403
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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761876
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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762275
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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … Jewish women and 28 percent of non-Jewish white women were in professional jobs. Differences by gender were smaller than …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469716