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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 …

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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt : evidence from quantile regression on panel data

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2018 - This version: October 15, 2018

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the publicprivate sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...

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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...

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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...

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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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Earnings discrimination in the workplace

Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022

research evidence on earnings discrimination as one source of earnings inequality within the workplace. The ability of …

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Non-standard employment and wage differences across gender : a quantile regression approach

Duman, Anil - 2020

The paper aims to identify the effect of non-standard employment on wages in the Turkish labour market across gender and decompose the gap to understand the role of endowments and returns in generating the earning differences. Our findings show that non-standard employment reduces wages for...

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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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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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