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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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How do women allocate their available time in Europe? : differences with men
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2021
This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on …-demographic characteristics and paid work is taken into account. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of gender gaps in Europe, helping to … focus recent debates on how to tackle inequality in Europe, and clarifying the factors that contribute to gender …
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The nativity wealth gap in Europe : a matching approach
Ferrari, Irene - 2019
This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe … reducing the gap. Indeed, households who migrated within Europe, those who moved at younger ages rather than as adults and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161659
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Returns to education in the public and private sectors : Europe and Central Asia
Montenegro, Claudio M.; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022
The returns to schooling are estimated for 28 European and Central Asian countries using the Mincerian function. Our results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is stronger in the private sector. However, the returns...
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Navigating the precarious path : understanding the dualisation of the Italian labour market through the lens of involuntary part-time employment
Cuccu, Liliana; Royuela, Vicente; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024
This paper investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its impact on various socio-economic groups and adopting a spatial perspective. Our study tests the hypothesis that technological shifts, specifically routine biased technological...
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Immigrant overeducation across two generations : the role of gender and part-time work
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the evidence of causal effects in both directions. We highlight a few themes that we regard as...
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Earnings discrimination in the workplace
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their social group. The paper reviews theories of why employers...
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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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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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