Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 588
Cover Image
Just like a woman? : new comparative evidence on the gender income gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained. In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131232
Cover Image
The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321056
Cover Image
Immigrant overeducation across two generations : the role of gender and part-time work
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014555732
Cover Image
Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity within and between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna - 2009
-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153175
Cover Image
Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918227
Cover Image
Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318031
Cover Image
Overeducation Among Immigrants in Sweden : Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
Andersson, Pernilla - 2012
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104048
Cover Image
The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso - 2013
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071281
Cover Image
Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2013
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089972
Cover Image
Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258938