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international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …
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stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We estimate separate wage equations for Danes … of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at...
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portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 … of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap in the order of one fifth of the West German gap. Segregation is not …
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employment rates in the UK are often low they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage differentials. Thus …
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part attributable to differences in the estimated coefficients. The method is applied to a decomposition of the gender wage …
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