...Maryam Dilmaghani; Rabiul Islam; Vurain Tabvuma Purpose While a significant body of research establishes a negative relationship between overweight and wages, the extent to which the wage-BMI gradient varies across sexual orientations remains understudied. Using the latest released cycles...

...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...

..., particularly in fostering wage employment over self-employment and addressing disparities in access to social protection. Design/methodology/approach The study employs an empirical approach using Lebanon's latest labor force household survey data (2019). A multinomial logit model evaluates how NSSF...

...Monsoï Kenneth Colombiano Kponou Purpose This article examines the effect of employment sector choice on wage distribution in West Africa. Employing a methodological approach that accounts for endogeneity issues related to sector selection, the study distinguishes between two dimensions...

... these industries in Taiwan could deter the economic shocks on account of the effect that their high R&D investment had on the wages they paid, particularly to high-skilled women workers (HSWW), during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study used the Heckman two-stage estimation method...

...Maryam Dilmaghani Purpose Using the Canadian Census of 2016, the present study examines the Black and White gap in compensating differentials for their commute to work. Design/methodology/approach The data are from the Canadian Census of 2016. The standard Mincerian wage regression, augmented...

... spending and the outflow of FDI. Yu-Cheng Lai can be contacted at: br00846@yahoo.com 11 02 2023 12 06 2023 29 08 2023 30 10 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Outward FDI R&D Skilled workers Wage...

...Hao Li Purpose The study aims to study the effect of non-cognitive ability in human capital on the wages of rural migrant workers in China. The study also examines the mechanisms by which career choice, career development and social capital influence. Design/methodology/approach Based...

... to upward wage mobility. Design/methodology/approach The study relies on data obtained from the second survey on the Labour Insertion of University Graduates conducted by the National Statistics Institute (INE, 2019). This survey allows us to observe labour market transitions of the first group...

... (IFDI) in the country. To test the role, the authors measured the differences in effects of the two changes on wages, working hours and employment opportunities of skilled female and skilled male workers in FDI-intensive and non-intensive industries. Design/methodology/approach Using a model built...

... and employment for women and men. Design/methodology/approach Using the data from Manpower Utilization Survey, we applied the differences‐in‐differences estimation method to test the effects of work‐sharing arrangements on working hours, wage and employment. Multinomial logit was used to measure the effects...