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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …

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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity within and between Firms

Pendakur, Krishna - 2009

-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …

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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

gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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Overeducation Among Immigrants in Sweden : Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence

Andersson, Pernilla - 2012

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …

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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso - 2013

We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...

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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does it Reveal About Education Quality in Their Home Countries?

Alonso-Soto, Daniel - 2017

Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...

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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - 2013

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2021

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...

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