Showing 1 - 10 of 987
effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers’ wages (possibly in the … this model to study the impact of different policies on the gender wage gap and child penalties. We show that mandatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357633
developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698696
. 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 …In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237218
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431261
Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for … the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … potential endogeneity of our gender norms measure with an index of the degree of reproductive health liberalization when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311702
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861442
We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235108
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842672
We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224097
The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824576