so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth … discrimination began to be eroded. These factors, together with a series of supply-side changes, meant that women were more easily …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …

that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …

This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the …

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …

of other key variables, such as gender and educational attainment. …

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher … occupation are included. These findings suggest that the observed gender differential primarily reflects systematic differences …