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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Gender wage gap and the role of skills: evidence from PIAAC dataset

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap using the PIAAC dataset. Using the case of Austria, we show that skill use as well as the skill match play an important role with regard to wage regressions of men as well as...

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The gender wage gap among PhD holders: an empirical examination based on Italian data

Alfano, Vincenzo; Cicatiello, Lorenzo; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio - 2019

A growing number of academic studies are devoting their attention to the study of the gender wage gap. This paper contributes to the literature by analyzing the existence of this gap specifically among those who hold the highest possible educational qualification, i.e. a PhD. The analysis relies...

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From Elitist to Sustainable Earnings: Is there a group legitimacy in financial flows?

Charles, Aurelie; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018

Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in the financialisation process. This paper however shows that the cumulative effects on group earnings is a pattern visible across the labour force. The case studies on the US and...

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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants

Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...

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Reaching the Top or Falling Behind? The Role of Occupational Segregation in Women's Chances of Finding a High-Paying Job Over the Life-Cycle

Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018

Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-à-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...

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Testing for Asymmetric Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

Ge, Suqin; Moro, Andrea; Zhu, Beibei - 2020

We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when employer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discriminate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We...

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Occupational Licensing and the Gender Wage Gap

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020

We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...

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Earnings Discrimination in the Workplace

Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022

This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace …. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their … research evidence on earnings discrimination as one source of earnings inequality within the workplace. The ability of …

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The UK Gender Pay Gap: Does Firm Size Matter?

Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2022

Motivated by the introduction of the UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting legislation to large firms, defined as over 250 employees, we use linked employee-employer panel data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to explore pre-legislation variation in the gender pay gap by firm size. In doing...

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