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The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …
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Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
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models this result generally holds. Furthermore, we find evidence for gender specific differences with respect to the effects …
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. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In the first step, we obtain parameter estimates of the self …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration ("M") effect and the joint...
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The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
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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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, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our …
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inappropriately understood as inefficiency. To avoid this type of misspecification in regulatory practice estimation is carried out in …
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