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This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a … small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap …
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Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …
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Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...
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This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …
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, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the majority of the gender gap in labor supply … literature, but which has not been previously documented. The gender differential in supply elasticities leads to 3.3% lower …
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters.When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter … measuring industrial gender wage gaps …
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This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap … analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well as reweighting techniques, to the analysis of the gender pay gap. The … accounting for differential progress in the gender pay gap across time periods and a growing share of the gap unexplained by …
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