Showing 1 - 10 of 34
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender … gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they are more likely to be employed part time … and with temporary contracts. The gender gap (after controlling for worker and job characteristics) is about 20% and did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884108
and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884151
experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884219
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of … impact of the allocation of workers to firms and to job titles shaping the gender pay gap. We also provide a methodological … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959522
speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 …, we show that women are less likely to be employed in jobs using competitive compensation. The portion of the gender wage … gap explained by gender segregation in compensation schemes is small in the NLSY79 but somewhat larger in the NLSY97 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959554
from CV Keskus on people's wage expectations. Findings show that education and ethnicity are primary sources for gender …Estonia ranks consistently on top of the list of countries with the largest gender pay gap. However, irrespective of … address the issue of gender pay gap at the individual level. We examine how large is the gender pay gap in actual and expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959570
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have been found to exhibit greater masculinization of sexually dimorphic attributes relative to those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960104
This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279235
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 on the order of one fifth of the West German gap. Segregation is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233903
factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment … wage premium identify less wage elastic labour supply facing each establishment of women than that of men. Workforce gender … composition is strongly related to employers' wage policies. The results suggest that 70-90 percent of the gender wage gap for low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019399