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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 changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using … decomposition methods, quantile regressions, different datasets, and selection correction. …
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% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap … among employees. Our results further suggest that the gender gap among the self-employed is largely explained by the fact …
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address sector of employment selection issue for both males and females. We find that there is very little evidence of sample … selection in our data. Therefore, we present both the selection corrected results and the results with no selection correction … by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018", World Development, vol. 135: November …
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by almost 4 percentage points along the whole wage distribution …
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A growing number of academic studies are devoting their attention to the study of the gender wage gap. This paper …, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis and quantile decomposition. Findings suggest that a gender gap in hourly wages exists …
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, ethnic, and gender groups. Learning from such group behaviour on financial accumulation and drawing on Sen’s rules of …
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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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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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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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