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In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
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In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977299
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating psychological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. …
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learns substantially more about the gender wage gap in France through this analysis than through standard parametric …
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Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …
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Using the HILDA survey, this paper analyses Australian gender wage gaps in both public and private sectors across the … if the gap is attributed to differences in gender characteristic, or differing returns between genders. The main finding … is that a strong glass ceiling effect is detected only in the private sector. Secondly, the acceleration in the gender …
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, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect … on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … and women with similar noncognitive skills enter occupations at very different rates. Women, however, have lower wages on …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....
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Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … floors. Fourth, the gender pay gap differs significantly across the public and the private sector wages distribution for each … distribution for eleven countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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