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State Capture and the Limits of Human Capital: Education and Institutional Quality in Post‐Socialist Europe

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the “Care Penalty” in the Portuguese Labor Market: Uncovering (Gender) Pay Differentials in Long‐Term Care

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the distinctive characteristics of the highly gendered long‐term care (LTC) sector, in this study, we analyze wages and earnings within caring sectors through an integrated theoretical approach that includes theories of ageism, compensating wage differentials, and gender‐based devaluation.
Viktoria Szenkurök, Ricardo Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Is There Intersectional Labor Market Discrimination?

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test for intersectional labor market discrimination across five dimensions: gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Specifically, we test for “amplifying intersectionality”—negative interactions between the effects of marginalized identities that make wage penalties greater than additive.
Joanne Song McLaughlin, David Neumark
wiley   +1 more source

Informalidad laboral en la fabricación de ropa en Argentina entre 2003-2018: ¿Qué aporta la encuesta permanente de hogares?

Estudios Económicos, 2020
A nivel mundial, la fabricación de ropa se caracteriza por las adversas condiciones laborales que sufren sus trabajadores. Con un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo, este artículo analiza la relación entre los atributos observables tanto individuales ...
Gustavo Ludmer, Federico Favata
doaj   +2 more sources

Are Firms Ready for Workforce Ageing? Evidence From Small‐Medium Sized Firms in Italy

LABOUR, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate age‐related human resource management (AR‐HRM) practices within SME in Italy. Using firm‐level survey data with information on age‐related attitudes and practices, we analyze the determinants of age management and outplacement practices, along with the role of collective bargaining.
Claudio Lucifora, Marco Piotti
wiley   +1 more source

Gendered Parenthood and Platform Work Across European Welfare Regimes

New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform labour has been growing and meanwhile successfully established in many parts of the world. Yet participation in platform work not only varies markedly across countries but also by individual‐level factors such as gender and parenthood.
Timon Kai Drewes
wiley   +1 more source

A Stata implementation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition [PDF]

, 2008
The counterfactual decomposition technique popularized by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) is widely used to study mean outcome differences between groups. For example, the technique is often used to analyze wage gaps by sex or race.
Jann, Ben
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Power Unleashed: Theorizing a Weak Ecology of Checks and Balances and Its Consequences. A Case From the Global South

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences ...
Oliver Meza, Elizabeth Pérez‐Chiqués, Aldo Martínez‐Hernandez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Skills and Tasks in Gender Gaps in Latin America

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore gender gaps in the labor market in Latin America, incorporating two relevant factors often overlooked: skills and the type of tasks performed at work. The study is based on data from the 2018 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) for four Latin American countries.
Cristian Bonavida, Leonardo Gasparini
wiley   +1 more source

ICT adoption and firm-level productivity gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cogent Economics & Finance
This study examines the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) adoption and firm-level labour productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa using the 2025 World Bank Enterprise Survey, covering 5315 firms across 14 countries.
Edward Bbaale, Alice Nalweera
doaj   +1 more source