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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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Returns to education and female work force participation Nexus : evidence from India

Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2018

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …

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The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022

We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....

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Just like a woman? : new comparative evidence on the gender income gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018

I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine using recent household data based on an identical survey instrument across countries. Four main results are established, using a range of estimators, including...

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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...

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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 downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...

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Commuting patterns, the spatial distribution of jobs and the gender pay gap in the U. S.

Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018

This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they bear a disproportionate share of housework and...

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Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in …

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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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