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share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk …
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differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …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 …
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we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …
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This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender inequality on the female brain drain ratio as a result of effects of gender … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration.At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …
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We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records …. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after …
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Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre …
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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 part-timers, female full-timers and female part-timers) is considered, and … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking …
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This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of international migration, documented versus undocumented, we...
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …-used measure of the difficulty with which women combine motherhood and labor market work. Using a structured statistical model, I …
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