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The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China: 1988-1995

DEMURGER, Sylvie; FOURNIER, Martin; Yi, CHEN - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against … loosening of the government’s egalitarian wage setting policies, leaving more space for discrimination in state …

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Does Part-Time Employment Widen the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Twelve European Countries

Matteazzi, Eleonora; Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

One of five workers work part-time in Europe, mainly women. This article examines the extent to which the overrepresentation of women in part-time employment explains the gender hourly earnings gap in twelve European countries. Using the EU-SILC 2009 data, a double decomposition of the gender...

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Part-time wage penalties in Europe: A matter of selection or segregation?

Matteazzi, Eleonora; Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Agreement on part-time work and aiming at eliminate any form of discrimination against part-time workers. Full-time hourly wages … the presence of discrimination against part-time workers within firms can explain this positive wage gap. However the …

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From the glass door to the glass ceiling: An analysis of the gender wage gap by age groups

Chiara, Elena Dalla; Matteazzi, Eleonora; Petrarca, Ilaria - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

Using 2009 EU-SILC data for France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, we decompose the gender wage gap for prime age workers. We adopt an age group approach to identify when and how the glass door and the glass ceiling effects arise and their persistency over time. The empirical...

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The measurement of gender wage discrimination: The distributional approach revisited

Río, Coral del; Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

female wage discrimination. The limitations of previous approaches such as the classic Oaxaca-Blinder and the recent … directly applicable to the measurement of discrimination. In an empirical application, we quantify the relevance of the glass …

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What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain

Río, Coral del; Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

In this paper we analyse the distinct effectiveness of demographic, labour market and welfare state transfers events in promoting exits from deprivation for childbearing households in Spain, a Southern European Country with high and persistent child poverty and a familial welfare regime. We...

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Poverty and Women’s Labor Market Activity: the Role of Gender Wage Discrimination in the EU

Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga; Río, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU … countries, linking two related phenomena that rarely are analyzed together. In order to quantify the impact of discrimination on … poverty, we propose the construction of a counterfactual distribution of wages where discrimination against women has been …

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On the Measurement of Dissimilarity and Related Orders

Andreoli, Francesco; Zoli, Claudio - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

discrimination. We conceptualize the notion of dissimilarity making use of reasonable transformations of the groups' distributions … and discrimination. …

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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...

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Conditional occupational segregation of minorities in the U.S.

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

In this paper, we use a propensity score-based methodology to analyze the role of demographic and human capital characteristics of minorities in the U.S. in explaining their high occupational segregation with respect to whites. Thus, we measure conditional segregation based on an estimated...

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