Migration and labour market outcomes in OECD countries

Gender Role Attitudes and the Labour-market Outcomes of Women across Oecd Countries

This paper uses data from the World Value Surveys (1990, 1995,1999) to investigate the impact of gender role attitudes and work values on women’s labour-market outcomes across 25 OECD countries. Anti-egalitarian views are found to display the strongest negative association with female employment rates and the gender pay gap. These views are, however, softening among recent cohorts. On the other...

Great Expectations - migration and labour market outcomes in Australia

Wages and Productivity: the Role of Labour Market Institutions in Oecd Countries*

In the context of a monetary union, to keep a territorial equilibrium in terms of economic activity and employment, the relationship between real wages and productivity is crucial. In this paper, empirical evidence about the response of wages to productivity is obtained for 20 OECD countries and the role of labour market institutions to explain differences in this response is analysed.

OECD SOCIAL, EMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION WORKING PAPERS The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Germany

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language – English or French – with a summary in the other. The opinions expressed and arguments employed here are...

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