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Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men.Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …
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While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
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-Employee Database to examine different explanations for this gender wage gap. Sorting by gender at either the industry or firm level … explains less than one-fifth of the overall wage gap. Gender differences in productivity within firms also explain little of … the difference seen in wages. The relationships between the gender wage-productivity gap and both age and tenure are …
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We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation … occupational segregation by gender. As a result, the large job losses in middle-paid occupations during the Great Recession …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …
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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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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …
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