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. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …
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The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …
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With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...
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differences. We argue that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap, in …Models of worker flows have revitalized the idea of monopsony in the labor market. We apply such a model to gender …
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monetary income. We find that these values differ significantly by gender and by union status. We consider the reasons for such …
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In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … measured women's relative wage growth coincided with growth of wage inequality within-gender, and attribute the measured gender …
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these trends in labor force participation and wages for male...
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are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables …
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Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including...
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1987 and Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1971 and 1988 to analyze how this dramatic decline in the gender gap was …. These 'gender-specific' factors were more than sufficient to counterbalance changes in both measured and unmeasured prices … observed relative changes in the gender gap among skill groups, specifically a faster closing of the gap at the bottom of the …
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