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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
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Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2015
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011172
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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom - 2014
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the labour force participation decision and its gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052559
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Gender Disparities in Employment and Earnings in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017
a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of women than those of men, women continue to have lower employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966053
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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083707
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Assessing Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings in Africa : The Case of Eswatini
Brixiová, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999 : A Cohort-Based Analysis
Kuhn, Peter - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157532
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'Can't Get Enough' : Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057458
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Unionization and Productivity : Evidence from Charter Schools
Hart, Cassandra - 2014
This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060620