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Beauty and the Labor Market [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
We develop a theory of sorting across occupations based on looks and derive its implications for testing for the source of earnings differentials related to looks. These differentials are examined using the 1977 Quality of Employment, the 1971 Quality of American Life, and the 1981 Canadian Quality of Life surveys, all of which contain interviewers ...
Hamermesh, Daniel S, Biddle, Jeff E
openaire   +1 more source

The multifactorial aquaculture‐related COVID‐19 shock in Benin, West Africa: A socio‐economic perspective of mitigating the disruptive impacts on the small‐scale and subsistence producers

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 2, Issue 6, Page 507-521, December 2022., 2022
Graphical Abstract This study deals with a timely topic, COVID‐19, whose impacts on aquaculture have never been quantified in Benin. Direct discussions were held with aquaculture producers to understand how they are feeling the impact of the pandemic on their business.
Toundji Olivier Amoussou   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tennessee Labor Market Report, July 2021, The Consumer Price Index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/govpubs-tn-labor-workforce-development-labor-market-reports/1025/thumbnail ...
Tennessee. Department of Labor & Workforce Development.
core   +1 more source

Decomposing international gender test score differences

open access: yesJournal for Labour Market Research, 2018
In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys.
Farzana Munir, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
doaj   +1 more source

Immigrants and the Labor Market [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Labor Economics, 2006
This article examines skill gaps between immigrants and native‐born Americans and generational progress achieved by different immigrant ethnic groups. Evidence of a widening skill gap is not strong. While wage data show a pronounced fall in relative wages of “recent” immigrants, significant independent contributors to that decline are a widening age ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This article estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the US private sector since 2000. The authors distinguish between concentration in local labor markets and local product markets while guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration.
Aaron Sojourner   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Fish farming systems diversity and implications in the Republic of Benin: Fish farm types and their economic performance

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 2, Issue 6, Page 522-539, December 2022., 2022
Farm type delineation allows for simplifying the diversity in fish farming systems. Multivariate statistical techniques combined with the Calinski and Harabasz pseudo F statistic and bootstrapping were applied to determine the realistic number of fish farm types.
Ygue Patrice Adegbola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employees’ dilemmas in the contemporary labor market

open access: yesLabor et Educatio, 2023
Th  article concerns employees’ situation on the contemporary labour market. In particular, the essence of changes in work environment and the competences necessary to carry them out were ...
Stefan M. Kwiatkowski
doaj   +1 more source

Labor Market Policies in Informal Labor Markets

open access: yes, 2021
This thesis analyzes three different labor market policies implemented in countries characterized by high levels of informal employment. Chapter 1, joint with Hannah Liepmann, estimates the welfare effects of unemployment benefits in Mauritius and assesses the role played by informal jobs.
openaire   +2 more sources

Labor market reforms in Europe: towards more flexicure labor markets? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for Labour Market Research, 2016
Abstract Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers’ well-being and repercussions for social cohesion. EU-28 countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms in the aftermath of the 2008/2009 crisis to tackle a
Caroline Wehner   +3 more
openaire   +6 more sources

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