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We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender … and with temporary contracts. The gender gap (after controlling for worker and job characteristics) is about 20% and did … not change between 1995 and 2006. Furthermore, the gender gap in wages is driven mainly by differences in returns to …
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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 … contribution that combines the estimation of sets of high-dimensional fixed effects and Gelbach's (2009) unambiguous decomposition …
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on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution … distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock-in effects are still stronger for …
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graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and … firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education …
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Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …
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Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of … teenagers (15-19), the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20. The Juhn, Murphy and Pierce …
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and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …
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experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender …
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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 …
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