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The impact of selection into the labor force on the gender wage gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021
We study the impact of selection bias on the gender pay gap, focusing on post 1981 period. Previous work on this question has found divergent results. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and several identification strategies, we find that, after adjusting for selection, there were...
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Gender pay gap patterns in domestic and foreign-owned firms
Magda, Iga; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2019
We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …
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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013
between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysıt; Bircan, Fatma - 2010
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...
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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
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Mending the gap : apparel export prices and the gender wage gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022
Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...
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The impact of a minimum wage increase on hours worked : heterogeneous effects by gender and sector
Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023
A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...
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Using domain-specific word embeddings to examine the demand for skills
Chaturvedi, Sugat; Mahajan, Kanika; Siddique, Zahra - 2023
We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to obtain word vector representations (i.e., word embeddings) and discuss how these can be leveraged for...
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