Essays about: "Wage share"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 essays containing the words Wage share.

  1. 21. Labor market patterns in offshoring-receiving countries: Evidence from Poland

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Karin Lindell; Rosa Lauppe; [2015]
    Keywords : Poland; Job polarization; Offshoring; Routine-biased technological change; Skill-biased technological change;

    Abstract : Labor markets in highly industrialized countries in Western Europe and the United States have polarized over the last decades, which means that the share of middle-income occupations has decreased relative low- and high-income occupations. Two potential explanations for this are routine-biased technological change (RBTC) and offshoring, which both are expected to reduce middle-income occupations in highly industrialized countries. READ MORE

  3. 22. Possibilities for Nicaraguan Mangoes : A Value Chain Analysis of Dried Mango

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Aisha Hassan; [2014]
    Keywords : Dried Mango; Value Chain; Nicaragua; Income Diversification;

    Abstract : Two months of fieldwork was conducted during the summer of 2014 in Nicaragua, through qualitative interviews the aims was to investigate the Value Chain of dried mango and its potential as an alternative income source for livelihood improvements for households in Manzano Uno, Nicaragua. The idea to investigate dried mango in particular originates from a conversation in the spring of 2012 with Ben Orton, co- founder of local NGO Waves of Hope, who considered the idea after witnessing the huge amounts of ripe mango falling to the ground and rutting away during the peak season in Manzano Uno. READ MORE

  4. 23. Gender Wage Gap in Urban Nicaragua: Evidence from Decomposition Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Eduardo Camilo Pacheco Medina; [2013]
    Keywords : Gender wage gap; Nicaragua; discrimination; Oaxaca-Blinder; RIF-regressions.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper empirically investigates explanations to the gender wage gap in urban Nicaragua for 2005 and 2009. For this task, using data from the EMNV survey, we applied an Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition (standard and correcting for selection bias) of the mean wage and the novel Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regression method introduced by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009) for the wage distribution. READ MORE

  5. 24. Nature, nurture, norms - parental leave outcomes in a social context

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Helena Stenfors Virenfeldt; [2013]
    Keywords : Nash equilibrium; Parental leave; Social norms;

    Abstract : In spite of policy changes that favour equal distributions, it continuesto be a universal fact that women take the lion's share of parental leave.In the context of social aspirations of gender equality in the household aswell as the workplace, the slow rate of growth in fathers' parental leaveposes a serious obstacle. READ MORE

  6. 25. Emigration and Labour Market Outcomes in the CEE EU Member States: A Closer Look

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Yana Pryymachenko; [2011]
    Keywords : emigration; unemployment; wage; CEE; skill groups; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the effects of emigration on unemployment and wages in the ten Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. These countries experi-enced large migration outflows following their accession and thus lost a considerable share of their labour force. READ MORE