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' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following … proportion of women hired at high-wage firms, or sorting - and pay-setting policies - due to differences in pay by gender within …
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Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field...
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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the … simultaneous model is then developed which has important consequences for estimates of the influence of gender, ethnicity, training … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …
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Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of … parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role of gender for the relation between the incidence …
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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