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Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859626
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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination : The Gender Difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859718
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates … have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859745
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085
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Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomesand the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861194
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on youngpeople´s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, thepaper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and theCurrent Population Survey in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861518
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859579
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859602
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Anatomy of a Health Scare : Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief period of time, some highly publicized research suggested...
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