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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...

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Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they are more likely to be employed part time and with temporary contracts. The gender gap (after...

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When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?

Jurajda, Stepán; Harmgart, Heike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 … using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time workers. East Germany, which features a somewhat higher degree … related to the West German wage gap, but in East Germany, wages of both men and women are higher in predominantly female …

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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...

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Socio-demographic Model of Gender Gap in Expected and Actual Wages in Estonia

Vassil, Kristjan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Estonia ranks consistently on top of the list of countries with the largest gender pay gap. However, irrespective of abundant aggregate level evidence, little is known what motivates the gap at the individual level. In this paper we precisely address the issue of gender pay gap at the individual...

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Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap

Gielen, Anne C.; Holmes, Jessica; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have been found to exhibit greater masculinization of sexually dimorphic attributes relative to those...

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The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy

Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the...

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries

Gannon, Brenda; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 European Structure of Earnings Survey. Findings show the existence of significant inter-industry...

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