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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility
Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020
This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between … upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic … earnings mobility (either upwards or downwards) although the effect is stronger among women of high reproductive age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221068
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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-'a-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150170
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Will it be a shecession? : the unintended influence of working from home on the gender wage gap related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021 - Version: January 2021
Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423063
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161952
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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017
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 significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...
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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019
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 into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043
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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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The changing nature of gender selection into employment : Europe over the Great Recession
Dolado, Juan J.; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Tarasonis, … - 2017
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110901
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129058