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China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to promote higher standards of living as well as to reduce inequality. However, little is known about...
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gender and female representation in the top rung of the executive market. Though the status of females in the executive … gender equality is achieved and the glass ceiling is removed in the executive market. …
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Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … labour force participation decision and its gender gap. Using probit and decomposition analysis, our investigation shows that … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …
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We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female leadership increases with the share of female workers. This...
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Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and … concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The reduction in the gender wage gap is driven by sorting of workers … across sectors and occupations, while the reduction in the gender injury gap and the increased concentration of injuries …
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(INPS) to investigate gender differences in pay during the initial stages of a worker’s career. We find that a significant … gender differences are highest when workers move across firms. In particular, we find that the most significant gender gap in … growth and result in the highest salary increases. Moreover, this gender mobility penalty occurs mainly when workers move to …
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … component of the gender gap not explained by different characteristics. Our main findings are two-fold. First, in contrast with …
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This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps … started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that the gender pay gap is higher in the top half of the … sector. The fall in the gender gap in the lower part of the distribution from 1986 to 2003 is explained partially by the …
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We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for …
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