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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Who wins and who loses from school accountability? The distribution of educational gain in English secondary schools

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Slater, Helen; Wilson, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In 1988 the UK government introduced greater accountability into the English state school sector. But the information that schools are required to make public on their pupil achievement is only partial. The paper examines whether accountability measures based on a partial summary of student...

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

partly a result of a rise in occupational segregation and partly the general rise in wage inequality. Policies to reduce the …

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Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labour Markets on Hospital Performance

Hall, Emma; Propper, Carol; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Labour market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labour markets. We would predict that this will mean labour supply problems and potential...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform.

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...

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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...

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Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on … selection into education. Our results indicate that increasing education leads to postponement of first births away from teenage …

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