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Comparing Apples with Oranges : Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Plasman, Robert; Sissoko, Salimata - 2004

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution...

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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007

Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration … experience is a key factor for the migration decision of rural household members, and its importance keeps increasing from 2002 …

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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall...

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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...

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Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment

Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2011

the random assignment mechanism in place between 2002 and 2006 in all academic disciplines in Spain to select the members …

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Remember when it rained: The elusiveness of gender discrimination in Indian school enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

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Movin' on up: Hierarchical occupational segmentation and gender wage gaps

Shatnawi, Dina; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2012

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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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? : Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

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The public-private sector gender wage differential: evidence from matched employee-workplace data

Chatterji, Monojit; Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2007

Using new linked employee-workplace data for Britain in 2004, we find that the nature of the public private pay gap differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The analysis shows that little none of the gender earnings gap in both the public and private sector...

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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - 2012

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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