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It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …
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It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670114
second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we …-economic variables that affect the Namibian income distribution. he aim of the second study is to examine the differences in earnings … between males and females in manufacturing, service and public sector. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into …
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Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the … related to the gender composition of the firm’s workforce and the gender wage gap. Using a difference-in-difference framework … ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …
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This paper studies whether the degree of women’s representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may have an impact on public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To...
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discrimination increases in severity for the top levels of power and over an individual’s career trajectory. We suggest a series of …
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gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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This study compares average earnings and productivities for men and women employed in roughly 200,000 Chinese …-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of … productivity falls behind men’s productivity by a larger margin than the gap in earnings, and the null-hypothesis of earnings …
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disappears for three out of four performance variables. The only exception is sales. No gender difference is found for …
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disappears for three out of four performance variables. The only exception is sales. No gender difference is found for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645289