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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 … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …
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survey. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several sub-samples: within each gender, a distinction is made … determination and occupational employment. Our results suggest that earnings differentials mostly reflect differences in the type of … interpretation in terms of a certain degree of occupational segregation, rather than mere wage discrimination. …
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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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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market … individual labor market outcomes and the way attractiveness affects gender wage differentials. Further research is needed on the … transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap. …
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Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....
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This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …
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