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The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …
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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002
Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661889
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Unemployment, Real Wages and Union Membership
Schmidt, Christoph M; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide not only with a large labour force, but also with a high level of real wages, a small dispersion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656160
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Union Membership and Wage Bargaining When Membership is Not Compulsory
Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper develops a theoretical model of the <MI>simultaneous<D> determination of union wages and union membership, and empirically implements the model using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The empirical literature on union wage gaps has long recognized that union membership may be...</d></mi>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666596
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The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?
Júlio, Paulo Fernando; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public officials. In our economy, females and males can be either high or low-skill. The number of high-skill individuals elected for public office determines the overall quality of...
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Does Migration Empower Married Women?
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and wives differently. If migrant wives experience a relative improvement in their labour market position, bargaining theory suggests that they should experience comparatively...
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …
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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income
Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to...
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Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly explained by the differing average characteristics of male and female academics and barriers to female promotion. Preliminary analysis reveals that the crowding of women onto the...
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Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labour Market: The Household Interaction Effect
Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in full-time work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women only at strictly lower wages to men. The model...
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