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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination

Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014

Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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Subject of degree and the gender wage differential : evidence from the UK and Germany

Machin, Stephen; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of degree explains about...

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature

Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...

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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013

An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...

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Gender pay gap patterns in domestic and foreign-owned firms

Magda, Iga; Sałach-Dróżdż, Katarzyna - 2019

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...

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Gender inequality in the labor market : continuing progress?

Blau, Francine D. - 2024

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or...

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The increase of the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis

Piazzalunga, Daniela; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura - 2016

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its...

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The gender wage gap in Europe : job preferences, gender convergence and distributional effects

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2017

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of the...

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Selection on ability and the early career growth in the gender wage gap

Fraga, Eduardo; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2017

This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years of professional life. We use longitudinal data with 16 years of the early career history of formal sector workers in Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved...

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