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while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …
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market. In addition, we observe not only that the wages in typical women's jobs are lower than in typical men's jobs but also … study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who … proportion explained decreases to only one-third. This reveals the real extent to which women are disadvantaged on the labor …
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, as opposed to a more "male" job, affects only women's wages negatively. This result remains stable after controlling for … market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this … Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …
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-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for … the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …
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' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external … locus of control for both men and women. …
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The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because …
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differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically … lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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between men and women across a set of welfare states. Using micro-data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), I … be attributed to the lack of breadwinner capabilities in the inability to financially support a family. Women, in … of labour is still highly traditional. Particularly among women with a moderate and low level of education, unemployment …
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The financial crisis in 2008/2009 substantially influenced the everyday social and economic life of many Tajik people, including their behavior in the labor market. However, not much is known about the dynamics of the labor markets of the transition economies, especially in the context of the...
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