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-spans. We derive the optimal direction of redistribution and show how it is affected by a gender neutrality rule. With singles … concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … when the transformation is sufficiently concave. Under gender neutrality pension schemes must be self-selecting. With …
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In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …. We estimate the impact of the law on men’s wages, women’s wages, and the gender pay gap using administrative data. The … results from a regression discontinuity design suggest that the wage transparency law did not change wages or the gender wage …
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this model to study the impact of different policies on the gender wage gap and child penalties. We show that mandatory … effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers’ wages (possibly in the …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …
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We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique … evidence for a statistically significant 4% gender wage gap among workers, at the project level. We also find that female … proposals in the regressions, the gender wage gap virtually disappears, i.e., it is statistically insignificant and very small …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the … entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of … industries and occupations. We find that employees in high-skilled occupations and industries experience lower gender wage gaps …
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redistribution from families with sons to families with daughters and can be implemented by a gender-specific schedule of public LTC … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
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