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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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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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Do friends and relatives really help in getting a good job?

Pellizzari, Michele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Informal contacts are extensively used by both firms and workers to find jobs and fill vacancies. The common wisdom in the economic literature is that jobs created through this channel are of better quality and pay higher wages than jobs created through formal methods. This paper explores the...

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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...

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Gender segregation in employment contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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 need to combine work with child care, in southern Europe part-time jobs …-represented in fixed-term contracts in southern Europe, and again this job allocation cannot be explained by preferences or …

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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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It's a family affair: the effect of union recognition and human resource management on the provision of equal opportunities in the UK

Fernie, Sue; Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Equal opportunities policies and family-friendly practices are examined using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey in order to assess (i) their associations with union recognition and strategic human resource management and (ii) the outcomes of what has recently been described...

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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...

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Explaining the black-white homeownership gap: the role of own wealth, parental externalities and locational preferences

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Liu, Yingchun - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

African Americans in the United States are considerably less likely to own their homes compared to Whites. Differences in household income and other socio-economic and demographic characteristics can only partially explain this gap and previous studies suggest that the ‘unexplained’ gap has...

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