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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022
health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804260
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Wage effects of recruitment methods : the case of the Italian social service sector
Mosca, Michele (contributor); Pastore, Francesco (contributor) - 2008
compensations, informal recruitment methods are part of the process of self-selection of motivated workers in nonprofit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748941
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Gender homophily in referral networks : consequences for the medicare physician earnings gap
Zeltzer, Dan - 2017
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776039
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The gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ of the European Union
Christofidēs, Loizos N.; Polycarpou, Alexandros; … - 2010
gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and selection corrections affect the offered gap, sometimes … ; selection ; quantile effects ; work-family reconciliation ; wage-setting institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986359
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Gender wage gap : a semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction
Picchio, Matteo; Mussida, Chiara - 2010
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce … densities in the presence of covariates which incorporates sample selection. We describe a simulation algorithm to implement … that when sample selection is taken into account gender wage gap widens, especially at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941543
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959934
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The trend over time of the gender wage gap in Italy
Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - 2011
gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379512
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153565
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Changes in job structure and rising wage inequality in urban China, 1995 - 2007
Xing, Chunbing - 2011
We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China's rising urban wage inequality, considering three job characteristics: occupation, industry, and firm ownership. The explanatory power of job structure for wage inequality increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523527
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Decomposing the composition effect
Rothe, Christoph - 2012
This paper proposes a decomposition of the composition effect, i.e. the part of the observed between-group difference in the distribution of some economic outcome that can be explained by differences in the distribution of covariates. Our decomposition contains three types of components: (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533336