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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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64
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Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession
The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay ...
(published as 'The gender salary gap in British academia' in: Applied Economics, 2001, 33 (3),1669-1681)
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J44
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61
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience
A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 New Zealand Censuses are used to illustrate changes in the characteristics of ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61 J68
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59
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Samuel
A.
Laryea
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Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lessons for Europe?
This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada’s post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of ...
(published in: : K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61 J68
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57
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Ira
N.
Gang
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35 (3), 550-569)
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I21 J15 J62
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56
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Assar
Lindbeck
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking and Work Incentives
The paper examines the implications for wage bargaining of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking. The analysis ...
(published as 'Centralized bargaining and reorganized work: Are they compatible?' in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (10), 1851-1875)
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D23 J24 J31 J51 J53
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55
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions
In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1999, 219 (3/4), 308-325)
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H24 H25 J32 J41
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54
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (1), 83-114)
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J15 J23 J61
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53
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Joop
Hartog
Pedro
T.
Pereira
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling
This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the ...
(published as 'Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal' in: Empirica, 2000, 27 (4), 353-364)
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J31
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52
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Jochen
Mayer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models
This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13 (2), 241-262)
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C25 J13 J61
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51
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Alan
Barrett
Philip
J.
O'Connell
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Does Training Generally Work? The Returns to In-Company Training
This paper applies the familiar theoretical distinction between general and specific training to the empirical task of estimating the returns to in-company training. Using a firm-level dataset which ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2001, 54 (3), 647-662)
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J24
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