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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 …-comparability between male and female employment. To address these problems the study uses a matching approach, which we also extend to a …
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We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is … some evidence that the gender gap in upper secondary education reflects the rising share of single parent households which …
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for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …
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employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from … two main sources: the program administration and compulsory communications on employment and unemployment spells. We found …
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data is useful for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived … for many firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours … also helps identify several issues, such as the impact on gender equality which have received less journalistic attention …
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …
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Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of … teenagers (15-19), the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20. The Juhn, Murphy and Pierce …
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rates (at over 80%), the unconditional gender gap in log hourly wages has increased by a half, while that in log of net and … tended to reduce (not to increase) the gender wage gap: in fact, women have benefited both of changes in the degree of wage …
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birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects …
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This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11.4 and 8% – when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
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