Ireland provides us with a unique case-study of the effects of discrimination in the labour market. Since the ninteen-sixties and until the late nineteen-eighties, gradual reforms of explicit discrimination against females ...
Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in
the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution
may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. ...
This study has a double focus, substantive and methodological. Substantively, it attempts to apply and test a fairly well known model of labour supply. From a methodological point of view, it shows how the Linear Probability ...
Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males,
efficient cost sharing of on-the-job training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that ...
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm(Institute for Fiscal Studies2000, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-04-20)
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model
the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a
multinomial logit model to analyze whether ...