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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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Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each … year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the … established literature on the gender pay gap based predominately on employee information. More specifically, we explore the …
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particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …
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This paper examines the ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation using a sudden COVID-19-induced …, reporting organisations have a 6% lower gender pay gap a year later. This is driven by a relative increase in females in the top … hypothesis that ongoing reporting is most effective in organisations with weaker pre-existing pressures to narrow their gender …
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Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and … concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The reduction in the gender wage gap is driven by sorting of workers … across sectors and occupations, while the reduction in the gender injury gap and the increased concentration of injuries …
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Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...
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It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model a la...
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