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on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms …
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This paper explores the hypothesis that changes in trading patterns and partners of US industries have contributed to skill deepening through defensive, skill-biased innovation. It draws on Thoenig and Verdier's (2003) assertion that, since skill-intensive technologies are less likely to be...
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find that the export status of firms plays a key role in explaining labour market dynamics, as exporters account for most …
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We study the effect of 'globalization' on wage inequality. Our 'global' economy resembles Rosen's (1981) 'Superstars' economy, where a) innovations in production and communication technologies enable suppliers to reach a larger mass of consumers and to improve the (perceived) quality of their...
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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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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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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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