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Economists and sociologists have proposed arguments for why there can exist wage penalties for work involving helping and caring for others, penalties borne disproportionately by women. Evidence on wage penalties is neither abundant nor compelling. We examine wage differentials associated with...
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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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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
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observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and decomposition methods have been used and compared. First, we … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca …
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This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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