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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?

Mumford, Karen - 2019

This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...

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The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector : Is Selection Relevant Across the Wage Distribution?

Chzhen, Yekaterina - 2012

We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant evidence of a self selection effect for women into full-time employment (or of components of self...

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The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries

Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2021

In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these...

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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2021

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...

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The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential : Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data

Chatterji, Monojit - 2007

Using new linked employee-workplace data for Britain in 2004, we find that the nature of the public private pay gap differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The analysis shows that little none of the gender earnings gap in both the public and private sector...

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Gender Gaps Across the Earnings Distribution in Britain : Are Women Bossy Enough?

Chzhen, Yekaterina - 2009

This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...

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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather - 2011

Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers … workers' perceptions of discrimination that drive formal complaints to the EEOC. Yet the relationship between statistical and … self-assessed measures of discrimination is far from obvious. We expand on the previous literature by using data from the …

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather - 2011

This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...

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Workplaces, Low Pay and the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Mumford, Karen - 2017

This study provides a robust assessment of the importance of a number of determinants of the gaps in earnings between the four groups of employees who make up the British workforce; males and females who work full and part-time. The analysis considers the contribution of individual employee...

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Gender-biased redistribution and intra-household distribution

Dasgupta, Indraneel - In: European economic review : EER 45 (2001) 9, pp. 1711-1722

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