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We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to bankruptcy regulations. We show that the calibrated model matches important quantitative...
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on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained …
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gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We find that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups …
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We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning …, interestingly, not found to be relevant in the Australian context. Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are …
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The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...
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When wage setting is more regulated, the gender wage gap tends to decrease. We examine whether this holds for a complex … market. The system has the potential to close the gender wage gap by ensuring equal minimum pay for equal jobs, but it also … levels as well as returns to experience and their association with individual gender as well as the male employment share in …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in … Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained …
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