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Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in …
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Survey, cross-sectional estimates of the impact of proportion female in an occupation (or feminization) on wages are first …
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personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these … differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. The decomposition shows that only 8.6 percent of the …
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Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior that are important for understanding many labor-supply decisions. Workers who believe that they have been discriminated against are more likely to...
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
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Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the … impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university sector, focusing on the Russell Group of top … document several key findings. First, following the pay transparency intervention, the log of salaries of female academics …
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by female non-professorial faculty after Athena SWAN accreditation is likely to come from pay rises within a particular …
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are among the most highly paid employees in the UK. Traditionally dominated by men the occupation has experienced a recent …
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and thegeneral absence of...
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We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of flexible and atypical contracts; the female employment rates and educational levels have substantially...
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