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participation and wages over the life- course for men and women. Those with a higher PGS spend more time in employment and full …-time employment and, when in employment, earn higher hourly wages. The employment associations are more pronounced for women than for … men. Conditional on employment, the PGS wage associations are sizeable, persistent and similar for men and women between …
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measures of firm value. We find no evidence that these gains come at the expense of employment, workers' wages, or firm profits …
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gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns to the different characteristics at the more relevant percentiles and a suitable version of the...
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
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Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the labour force participation decision and its gender gap....
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above – and employment rates and wages far below – those of majority populations. One issue which has received relatively … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage …
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We use the confidential files of the 1991-2006 Canadian Census, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to explore whether Canadian immigrant women behave as secondary workers, remaining marginally attached to the labour market and experiencing little career...
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job employment. This contribution is statistically significant although small in magnitude. This indicates that while …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … 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 …
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