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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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Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?

Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2021

In many countries, women are over-represented among low-wage employees, which is why a wage floor could benefit them 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...

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What is the role of firm-specific pay policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada?

Li, Jiang; Dostie, Benoît; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle - 2020

Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, we examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), we find that...

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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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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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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, 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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Moving up or falling behind? : gender, promotions, and wages in canada

Javdani, Mohsen; McGee, Andrew D. - 2015

We estimate gender differences in internal promotion experiences for a representative sample of Canadian workers using linked employer-employee data. We find that women in Canada are 3 percentage points less likely to be promoted and have received fewer promotions than similar men, but these...

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