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Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …
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We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close … also more likely than men to be unable to work from home, which contributes to their increased exposure. Gender is a more … important factor in workers' exposure to contagion than their education or age. This gender difference in exposure can be …
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We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results...
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We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and …
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. -- Glass ceiling ; experimental economics ; personality …
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A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...
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