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The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...
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. We explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on …There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non … become consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution …
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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …
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cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
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Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …
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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue …
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There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on individuals to compare job loss of workers affected by a minimum wage increase with those who are not directly affected. This sort of study requires good quality wage data in...
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