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1561 Sylvain Dessy
Habiba Djebbari
Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals
Both men and women wish to have a family and a rewarding career. In this paper, we show that the under-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young ...
(published as 'High-powered careers and marriage: can women have it all?' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 42)
J12, J16, J24
1560 Keith A. Bender
Steffen Habermalz
Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (1), 107-125)
I0, I12, J0, J60, C13
1559 Panu Poutvaara
Andreas Wagener
To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 975-987)
H20, H57, I21, D63
1557 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara de la Rica
Immigrants' Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions and Its Implications on Regional Disparities: Evidence from Spain
Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant ...
(published in: SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2010, 1 (1), 387-407)
J61
1556 Maria Guadalupe
Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (3), 439-474)
J31, J33, L22, D21
1555 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Using Matched Employer-Employee Data to Study Labor Market Discrimination
Wage gaps between individuals of difference races, sexes, and ethnicities have been documented and replicated extensively, and have generated a long history in labor economics research of empirical ...
(published in: William Rodgers (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, Edgar Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. 2006, 29-60)
J71
1554 René Böheim
Helmut Hofer
Christine Zulehner
Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
In most OECD countries the wage gap between men and women has declined during the past two decades. Developments of the last 20 years, e.g. increased labour market attachment of women, changes in the ...
(published as 'Wage differences between Austrian men and women: semper idem?' in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (3), 213-29)
J31, J71
1553 Alan Barrett
Adele Bergin
David Duffy
The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2006, 37 (1), 1-26)
J24, J31, J61
1552 Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
David Neumark
School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study
We study a set of programs implemented in Philadelphia high schools that focus on boosting post-secondary enrollment. These programs are less career oriented than traditional school-to-work programs, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2007, 15(2), 135-157)
I28, J24
1551 Kræn Blume Jensen
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Peder J. Pedersen
Mette Verner
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s. Denmark and Sweden share the same properties in a range of ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2007, 33 (3), 373-396)
F22, I32, J15
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