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on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained. …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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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 data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …
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-executive board of US, UK, French and German companies, we investigate gender differences in the use of social networks and their … impact on earnings. There is a large gender wage gap: women (who make up 8.8% of our sample) earned average salaries of $168 … levels. Women are more likely than men to be non-executives, whose salaries are lower; nevertheless, a substantial gender gap …
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international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …
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stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We estimate separate wage equations for Danes … of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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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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