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Purpose The gender pay gap is a well-documented phenomenon in labor economics. Based on the 2018 Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), the authors estimate the impact of observable characteristics on the gender pay gap in Visegrad Group countries and provide policy recommendations on reducing the gender pay gap. Design/methodology/approach The Oaxac...

Does government audit affect employee allocation of enterprises? Using the quasi natural experiment and differences-in-differences(DID) model, this paper empirically tests the impact of government audit on employees efficiency and labor cost stickiness of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. The results show that after the implementation of gov...

This paper analyses the literature related to the underrepresentation of women academics in order to identify the factors that influence the underrepresentation of women in higher-education teaching, academic leadership and research. In order to accomplish this, we conducted a review of 83 research articles from 2005 to June 2023 available in the W...

Objective To study cost-related medication non-adherence (CRN) for a 30-month period before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using a sample of Medicare patients at high risk of hospitalization.DesignA novel data set of quarterly surveys of CRN was used to evaluate CRN before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) an...

High-quality regional development should be promoted by facilitating inter-regional mobility of heterogeneous labor force to optimize its spatial allocation. This study incorporates skill relatedness into spatial categorization and selection effects, and explores how skill-relatedness affects the location choice of heterogeneous labor force. To do...

The study aims to investigate the impact of social, economic and political globalization on the renewable energy-economic growth nexus in a panel of six Asian emerging economies over the period 1975-2020. The results of the CS-ARDL approach show that renewable energy consumption contributes significantly to long run economic growth. Economic and po...

The article sought to detect the impact of the value-added tax (VAT) policy on the enterprises' asset allocation from the dual perspectives of the VAT input refund and the VAT rate. Based on the influenced mechanism of the VAT input refund and the tax burden effect (and the price effect) caused by the VAT rate, enterprises' intertemporal optimal as...

Addressing risks and pandemics at a country level is a complex task that requires transdisciplinary approaches. The paper aims to identify groups of the European Union countries characterized by a similar COVID-19 Resilience Index (CRI). Developed in the paper CRI index reflects the countries' COVID-19 risk and their readiness for a crisis situatio...

The "Jobless growth" of Pakistan's economy and its acquaintances with frequent changes in different governments in power (both democratic and military regime) and its influence on economic growth persuades to conduct a qualitative analysis of the structural transformation on the disaggregated level to determine whether or not it has any connection...

The study includes the larges peer-reviewed database or labor economics. Sources of review literature are taken from the popular Google, namely Scopus, Emerald, and ScienceDirect. The PRISMA 2023 system for systematic review followed to the authors. 35 journals from the author's journals include in the collection. An interesting result is that the...

It is known that the rapid progress of the Chinese economy is perceived to be aligned more towards increasing the economic quantity (GDP) rather than its quality primarily owing to a large amount of carbon emission, increased environmental pollution, and high resource consumption. However, such perception comes with no single evidence or study that...

Economic globalisation is the integration of national economies into the global economy through the increasing flow of goods, services, capital, and technology across borders and it has contributed to garnering a significant portion of most nations' national income, although its agricultural value-added aspect has yet to be maximised. This pioneeri...

Regional economic inequality has long been a prominent problem in China's national economic and social development. In this study, the centre of gravity (CG) model is employed to reveal the spatiotemporal patterns and stages of China's economic inequality in 1978-2018, and the characteristics of different stages are explored. The results show that...

Over the year of 2015, about 800.000 refugees arrived in Germany, a number which equals around one percent of the total population. This migration process was labelled the refugee crisis and was accompanied by a contested debate. On the one hand, there was a widespread willingness to voluntarily help arriving refugees, on the other hand, the number...

A country's industrial structure plays a pivotal role in determining its competitiveness, growth, and sustainability. Recently, many Asian countries have experienced significant economic upgradation and transformation and have emerged as major players in global trade. It is crucial to understand the factors contributing in upgradation of industrial...

The study aims to explore and select the methods most appropriate for employment assessment in the context of unprecedented change. To achieve the overall objective the main indicators of the labor market were monitored. The studied methodological base allowed approaching the employment assessment in a complex way. The results show that the COVID-1...

The article raises the problem of multiple approaches to determining the requirements for the competencies of a modern leader, since managerial personnel and their activities are the subject of study of management, social psychology, labor economics, and sociology. The topic of building models of specialists in relation to the requirements of the w...

We investigate how different levels of information influence the allocation decisions of donors who are entitled to freely distribute a fixed monetary endowment between themselves and a charitable organization in both giving and taking frames. Participants donate significantly higher amounts, when the decision is described as taking rather than giv...

The effective and efficient management of financial systems and resources fosters a socioeconomic climate conducive to technological and innovative advancement, thereby fostering long-term economic growth. The study used panel data from 72 countries classified as less financially developed between 2009 and 2017 to examine the role of economic freed...

Suicide is among the main challenges that need to be addressed in developed countries. In this paper, we analyse suicides across the 17 Spanish regions over the period 2014-2019. More precisely, our objective is to re-study the determinants of suicides focusing on the latest economic expansion period. We use count panel data models and sex stratifi...

z Lisansüstü tezler; konuların çalışılma sıklığı, çalışılan ana bilim dalı ve üniversitelerin belirlenmesi adına doküman incelemesi kapsamındaki kaynaklardandır. Araştırmanın amacı esnek çalışma konulu lisansüstü tezlerin yazıldığı; üniversitelerin, çalışılan anabilim dalı, anahtar kelimeler, konuların ilişkilendirildiği durum tespitini sağlamaktır...

In this study, this behavior and motivation of Şeyhmus ERGİNOĞLU, who lives in Mardin Artuklu, has been operating in two economic branches for 26 years and does not receive the wages for his labor, and this behavior and motivation, which does not seem economically rational. In the two economic branches in which he worked in the framework of behavio...

Rural residents account for the bulk of poverty in developing countries. This paper evaluates the impact of Indonesia's Dana Desa program (Village Fund Program or VFP) on rural poverty and female labour force participation. The VFP, introduced in 2014, was an ambitious national-level village governance program which transferred administrative respo...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyze and forecast the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market of Armenia. Theoretical framework: The theoretical framework of the article draws upon several key concepts relevant to labor market analysis. It incorporates elements from labor economics, macroeconomics, and crisis management li...

The economic landscape of the United Kingdom has been significantly shaped by the intertwined issues of Brexit, COVID-19, and their interconnected impacts. Despite the country's robust and diverse economy, the disruptions caused by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic have created uncertainty and upheaval for both businesses and individuals. Recognizin...

Studies are lacking on the employment determinants of job insecurity, that may be helpful to determine highly exposed groups and to assess the feasibility of constructing job-exposure matrices (JEMs) for this occupational exposure. The objectives were to explore the employment determinants of job insecurity in a nationally representative sample of...

Standard two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression remains dominant in instrumental variables estimation of causal effects even though the literature has shown that 2SLS may be inconsistent when effects are heterogenous and the instrument is only valid when conditioning on covariates. To show that this is not merely a hypothetical threat, this pape...

The fast growth in the installation of industrial robots has had a major impact on the comparative advantage of nations and the division of labor in global value chains in the era of smart manufacturing. Using various econometric models and panel data from 18 industries in 38 countries from 2000 to 2014, this paper empirically examines the impact o...

Nearly 240 million children are estimated to have a disability globally. We describe inequities by disability status and sex in birth registration, child labour, and violent discipline outcomes. Data come from Round 6 of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey programme and includes 323,436 children, aged 2-17 years in 24 countries. We estimated non-...

Social scientists have been aiming to calculate a “subjective income Gini coefficient”of survey respondents that would describe their beliefs about income inequality in their country. Niehues (Subjective perceptions of inequality and redistributive preferences: an international comparison, Cologne Institute for Economic Research, IWTRENDS Discussio...

O ano de 2020 foi marcado pela maior pandemia do século XXI. O vírus da SARS-CoV-2, fez a humanidade voltar à utilização de uma ação sanitária há muito em desuso: a quarentena. Essas restrições de contato físico e socialização com outros seres humanos foram utilizadas por muitos governos para tentar dirimir a propagação do vírus SARS-CoV-2, entrand...

The wilting process is required for the preparation of traditional low-moisture silage, which is not only subject to the interference of rainfall during the harvest season in many areas, but also increases labor, economic, and time costs. Therefore, in this experiment, newly harvested alfalfa was supplemented with a complex additive consisting of l...

This paper examines the effects of three distinct groups of uncertainties on market return and volatility in the Asia-Pacific countries, including (i) the country-specific and US geopolitical risks; (ii) the US economic policy uncertainty; and (iii) the US stock market volatility (using the VIX and SKEW indices). Our sample includes 11 Asia-Pacific...

Analyzing the economic benefits of enterprise employees is better for protecting the rights and interests of enterprise employees. In this paper, based on the K-means clustering algorithm in the context of the Internet, the K-means clustering algorithm is optimized by the entropy weight method, and a K-means clustering model for exploring the analy...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and its prevention and control measures, such as social distancing, self-isolation, and quarantine, have a negative impact on the population's mental health. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of anxiety and stress among the general population during the outbreak of COVID-19 and assess their associated f...

Resumo O artigo analisa o retorno financeiro da educação para os trabalhadores graduados, considerando os efeitos das características individuais e, sobretudo, das variáveis locais do mercado de trabalho, bem como as sociais e econômicas, dos municípios da Região Sul do Brasil. Para captar os efeitos dessas variáveis, foram estimadas equações de re...

The relevance of the research topic is that at present, personnel planning is an essential element of the personnel policy of any enterprise, which contributes to the fulfillment of tasks related to the development of the enterprise. Formulation of the problem. Personnel planning of an enterprise requires constant adjustment: how many employees, wh...

The massive incorporation of women to the labour market has increased academic and applied interest on work-life issues throughout the years. This article aims to describe the domestic burden and difficulties in work-life balance (WLB) and to understand the intersection of work and family spheres among hotel housekeepers (HHs). A cross-sectional st...

The networks of factor flows in rural areas are the main support for rural revitalization, which has become one of the research trends in rural geography. Taking a typical industrial town in China as an example, the study explored the operating characteristics of rural factor flow networks and the relations of multi-factor flows based on the social...

The idea behind the spillover effect of FDI on economic growth is based on the idea that multinational companies can bring technological innovation and rich knowledge to host countries. Therefore, FDI plays a vital role in technological innovations. This study aims to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the technological in...

On 11 March 2020, COVID-19, which started in Wuhan (China), was declared a pandemic. Since then, casualties have been increasing and have not ceased. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the Ecuadorian mining industry and to identify the capacities and weaknesses caused by the sanitary crisis. For this purpose, the study was struc...

Given the growing influence of non-academic organizations in the policy sphere, it is important to investigate the evidence both produced by and relied on by these organizations. Using citation analysis, a methodology primarily used in academic literature, we investigated the evidence base supporting the grey literature published by leading global...

The coupling coordination mechanism between economic resilience and high-quality economic development is clarified not only to improve the capacity of economies to withstand external shocks but also to boost the level of sustainable economic development. However, economic resilience and economic quality research are still in their infancy. This stu...

Abstract: Edward P. Lazear (1948-2020) is one of the most influential economists in the field of applied Labor Economics in modern time. He founded Personnel Economics, which applies an economic approach to Human Resources. His work linked traditional Labor Economics with the empirical analysis of behavior in organizations (mostly private enterpris...

This study examines the impact of female education and other control variables such as trade openness, per capita GDP, urbanization, and male employment on women's employment opportunities in South Asian countries. The annual data from 1990 to 2020 were evaluated. After determining the existence of slope heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, a...

Many studies have investigated the carbon footprint of households. They rely on consumption‐based responsibility and focus on how many emissions are embodied in a product. Here we open a new field by discussing the emissions that individuals enable by providing labor and capital to companies, using the framework of income‐based (downstream) respons...

Social Sciences Titles: Sociology, Psychology, Communication Studies, Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, Social Work, Philosophy, Economics, Business Administration, Labor Economics, Human Resources, International, Finance, Econometrics, Political Science and Public Administration, Law, Islamic Economics and Finance, Management Informatics...

Natural sciences and social sciences differ significantly in terms of learning outcomes, curriculum design and assessment methods. However, in today's Internet and Industry 4.0 era, the learning and teaching methods of these two disciplines are significant linked. In the past, physics and chemistry subjects focused on solving problems, taking multi...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought sudden economic devastation and forced countries to respond with policies to counter the looming economic crisis. What policy response do citizens prefer to combat an economic decline due to a pandemic? We study the preferences of citizens regarding economic policy and changes in these preferences as the pandemic unfol...

Apples, as a typical agricultural product with high added value, play a significant role in increasing farmers' income and promoting regional economic growth. They have become one of the main ways for farmers to develop agricultural and sideline products in China's Loess Plateau and Bohai Rim region. Based on panel data for provinces from 2007 to 2...

Background Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic struck Uganda, much emphasis by the policy makers and researchers were on the health effects of the pandemic at the expense of the economic effects hence creating a research gap. The cardinal aim of this study was therefore to examine the economic effects of the pandemic on the wellbeing of the market ven...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) occurs when one country invests in another. Multiple factors have contributed to fluctuations in FDI flows globally. This study investigates the impact of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI), Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) and Interest Rates (IR) on FDI in the African region. The study is significant because th...

With the increasing attention of the capital market to environmental, social and governance information, sustainability reporting has become an important carrier for stakeholders to gain insight into sustainability of companies. But the emerged "greenwashing" problem has also brought haze to the value creation of capital market. To study the conseq...

This study investigates how gender-focused nonprofit organizations used Twitter to advocate on behalf of women and girls during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected tweets from five nonprofits including Canadian Women’s Foundation, Anova, UN Women, National Organization for Women, and Planned Parenthood. Through thematic analysi...

Income modeling is crucial in determining workers’ earnings and is an important research topic in labor economics. Traditional regressions based on normal distributions are statistical models widely applied. However, income data have an asymmetric behavior and are best modeled by non-normal distributions. The objective of this work is to propose pa...

The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic had numerous social, political, and economic consequences. However, many studies suggest the labor market is the most affected area compared to the others. This is because some of the workers were forced to quit due to the presence of the pandemic at their places of employment. This particular paper focuses...

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a cou...

One's willingness to accept an outcome or even to correct it depends on whether the underlying procedure is deemed legitimate. We examine a modified version of the dictator game, where dictatorship is assigned by a fair procedure that is linked to the participant actions but in effect is completely random, to illustrate that this belief is not inde...

Research summary We synthesize the external enablement (EE) framework with insights from labor economics and strategic human capital to theorize how restrictive policy interventions shape technology ventures' employee recruitment, attending to both sides of the hiring dyad. We engage in a quantitative study of over 220,000 recruiting interactions b...

In general, women's wage work in the market economy may be characterized as relatively insecure, low-paid, unskilled, and gender-segregated. Gender differences become more pronounced when considering the realm of the agricultural marketplace, specifically in unpaid reproductive/care work in rural areas and non-remunerative productive work on the fa...

In general, women’s wage work in the market economy may be characterized as relatively insecure, low-paid, unskilled, and gender-segregated. Gender differences become more pronounced when considering the realm of the agricultural marketplace, specifically in unpaid reproductive/care work in rural areas and non-remunerative productive work on the fa...

Although the proportion of people living in slums is increasing in low- and middle-income countries and food insecurity is considered a severe hazard for health, there is little research on this topic. This study investigated and compared the prevalence and socio-demographic associations of household food insecurity in seven slum settings across Ni...

Difference-in-differences (DiD) is a popular method to evaluate causal effects of real-world policy interventions. To identify the average treatment effect on the treated, DiD relies on the parallel trends (PT) assumption, which states that the time trends for the average of treatment-free potential outcomes are parallel across the treated and cont...

En este artículo se examina la calidad del trabajo y la precariedad laboral en Colombia, tomando los pilares del trabajo decente promovidos por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) a partir de 1999, así como la medición de la precariedad laboral en el marco de la transformación del mundo del trabajo. Se acude a la construcción de dos índ...

Bu derleme çalışmasının amacı, özellikle kariyer danışmanlığı psikolojisi alanında öne çıkan bir teori olan Çalışma Psikolojisi Teorisi (ÇPT) hakkında genel bilgi vermektir. Geleneksel kariyer teorilerinde daha çok orta sınıf ve beyaz yakalı çalışanların kaygılarının ayrıcalıklı görüldüğü, yoksul ve işçi sınıfının dışlandığı bir durum söz konusu ol...

The problem of classification of objects into groups or known populations are great interest in statistics, for this reason, various techniques have been developed to fulfill this purpose. This work tends to identify the risk factors that influence on job insecurity of Paraguayan population; it was adopted on the basis of the Permanent Household Su...

This study investigates the association between objective and subjective indicators of economic uncertainty, generated by the COVID-19 health and economic crisis, and young Italians' fertility plans during the 2020. We use unique repeated cross-sectional data, collected at different time points during the pandemic (March and October/November 2020)...

We study 6000 author-publication observations to investigate predictors of early career success in six fields of economics. Concentrating on top researchers enables us to control for the effects of ability and effort, and focusing on the start of their careers minimizes distortions from reputation feedback. Our results reveal that the most importan...

The social integration (SI) of the Venezuelan population that has been moving through Latin America is complex, in an adverse political, social, labor, economic and recently health context, which exposes them to dynamics of discrimination, exclusion and violation of rights. The aim of this paper is to analyze, from a psychosocial approach, social p...

We estimate spatially disaggregated measures of intergenerational mobility in Chile through an administrative dataset linking children’s and their parents’ earnings from the formal private labour sector. We report remarkable heterogeneity as we find higher and lower upward mobility in mining and agricultural regions, respectively, corroborating pre...