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We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …
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This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …
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determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics … from five traditional Scottish Universities. Results reveal an aggregate gender salary differential for academic staff of …. The dominant contribution of rank to both the determination of female academic salaries and the gender salary gap suggests …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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national survey of three cohorts of French university graduates in economics, we examine the gender differential in early … decomposition reveals that nearly all of the gap is due to a persistent unexplained component. The gender differential among … chemistry (taken together) where a majority of graduates are male. The gender pay gap is smaller and the general level of …
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This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch....
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We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and … very similar number of hours per week, but men earn more than women across the pay distribution, with an unadjusted gender …
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it...
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