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state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico …
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The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …
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The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …
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study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …
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convergence in the 1990s. Factors that may have contributed to the slower narrowing of the unexplained gender pay gap include … changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and labor market …
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's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures … and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap. Since it is likely that labor market … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …
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This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany …
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