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This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the … Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …
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This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey … (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps … simply being female on wages. However, to form a complete picture, one should consider that gender wages are affected by a …
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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean … countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance … Regression Adjustment (IPWRA) estimator are used. The analysis finds that opportunities for women in these positions in the …
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evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the … matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …
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-school and above level of education are higher for women than for men; second, returns to graduate and above level of education …
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market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market. …
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The Italian economy performs well below the EU average. The reason is a dramatic and persistent low rate of investment, always invoked but never supported by national and supra-national institutions. However, investment to increase the quantity and quality of human capital is key to boost...
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Gender-based board quotas do not always lead to higher share of women in top management positions. We study the … consequences of an affirmative action policy that stipulates gender- and race-based targets in top management positions, beyond … boards. We focus on the representation of intersectional group identities, such as race and gender, at the top. We find …
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