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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316862
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020
, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843159
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Can Wage Transparency Alleviate Gender Sorting in the Labor Market?
Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2022
Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and employer choices. If female workers are not well informed about these pay differences, increasing wage transparency might alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082317