...Tolga Aksoy; Burak Ünveren Purpose This paper investigates how employment protection legislation (EPL) influences key labor market outcomes – wages, income inequality, and unemployment – addressing long-standing debates over whether stricter dismissal rules promote stability and fairness or hinder...

...Rosalind Chew Y   Fluckiger , J.   Silber . The Measurement of Segregation in the Labor Force . Heidelberg, New York : Physica‐Verlag   1999 . 176 pp. , ISBN: 3‐7908‐1214‐5 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Gender Inequality Population Labour force This book...

...Roy Green While unemployment has been the common experience of OECD countries over the last three decades, there have also been significant differences in its severity and extent. These differences were characterised in the 1990s as a “trade‐off” between unemployment and wage inequality. According...

... capital distribution and parameters; in general more unequal initial distributions tend to slow down accumulation, leaving a higher percentage of population into the poverty trap. Nevertheless further cases are possible and inequality in initial conditions does not always imply a lower accumulation...

.... Children Gender Inequality Opportunity costs Time Pay All the country studies that have been made on time use show a clear gender‐specific imbalance[ 1 ]. For the adult population as a whole, the average working week of paid employment and unpaid domestic work amounts to about 25 hours...

...Giovanni Ferro Luzzi; Jacques Silber In this paper, we devise a new methodology to analyse the gender differences in wage inequality. We first examine some traditional wage decomposition based on the means of wages, and then show how this approach can be extended to the whole distribution by using...