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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158043
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Back-to-Front Down-Under? Part-Time/Full-Time Wage Differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison L.; Wood, Margi - 2021
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the … proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who … first four waves of the new Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find that, once unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317463