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The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general … focus on gender differences in work preferences in relation to job satisfaction, risk aversion and self employment, and …
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period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
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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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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 …
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Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....
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gender and ethnicity. …
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We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the unexplained gender wage gap vary across occupations and find that this …
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Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …
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