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gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …
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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
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I analyze the value workers ascribe to the gender composition of their workplace and the consequences of these … hypothetical job choice experiment. This reveals that on average women and men value gender diversity, but these average … preferences mask substantial heterogeneity. Older female workers are more likely to value gender homophily. This suggests that …
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This paper estimates size and impact factors of the gender pay gap in Europe. It adds to the literature in three … aspects. First, we update existing figures on the gender pay gaps in the EU based on the Structure of Earnings Survey 2010 … the most important barrier to gender pay equality in European countries. In addition, the fact that part-time positions …
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This paper estimates size and impact factors of the gender pay gap in Europe. It adds to the literature in three … aspects. First, we update existing figures on the gender pay gaps in the EU based on the Structure of Earnings Survey 2010 … the most important barrier to gender pay equality in European countries. In addition, the fact that part-time positions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554003
This paper focuses on the impact that gender segregation in the labour market exerts on the underemployment gender gap …, especially for women. Furthermore, we conclude that the gender gap in underemployment is mainly due to the different distribution … of male and female workers across occupations and industries. Additionally, the different impact by gender that working …
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Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
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The gender pay gap is a complex issue caused by a number of interrelated factors and has inevitable impact on the …-segregation by economic activity in the labour market and its relationship to the gender pay gap across Europe. Dissimilarity index … is calculated and sectoral gender based segregation in EU during 2010 was on average 0.30, meaning that 30% of the …
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We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …
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Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by …
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