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Why is the rate of return to schooling higher for women than for men?
Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
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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Modernisation and son preference
Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...
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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?
Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data...
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Selectivity and the gender wage gap decomposition in the presence of a joint decision process
Schafgans, Marcia M. A.; Stelcnery, Morton - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
In this paper we revisit the gender decomposition of wages in the presence of selection bias. We show that when labor market participation decisions of couples are not independent, the sample selection corrections used in the literature have been incomplete (incorrect). We derive the appropriate...
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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment?: a cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed...
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Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
A large proportion of the gender wage gap is usually left unexplained. In this paper, we investigate whether the unexplained component is due to misspecification. Using a sample of recent UK graduates, we introduce variables on career expectations and character traits, variables that are...
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The early career gender wage gap
Napari, Sami - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
In Finland the gender wage gap increases significantly during the first 10 years after labor market entry accounting most of the life-time increase in the gender wage gap. This paper focuses on the early career gender wage differences among university graduates and considers several explanations...
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The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals
Bloom, Nick; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …
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Gender segregation in employment contracts
Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...
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