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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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Gender gaps in education

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …

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Inclusive recruitment? : hiring discrimination against older workers

Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two applicants engage in an identical job search, the older...

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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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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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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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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...

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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa : the case of Eswatini

Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021

earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … supporting female higher education and rural-urban mobility could reduce persistent inequalities in Eswatini's labor market …

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Hiring discrimination in labor markets : an experimental study of mood regulation

Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2021

We explore whether there is a link between mood and hiring decisions. This research examines how positive mood affects the discrimination faced my homosexual job candidates compared to heterosexuals. Our experimental design allows us to track the complete hiring process and monitor employers'...

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Unpaid work and gender gap patterns in Colombia

Ospina-Cartagena, Vanessa; García, Andrés - 2020

Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time use in unpaid care and home activities and to...

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