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OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … women are subject. Further support is lent to this notion by the fact that wage penalties for overweight and obese women are …
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OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … women are subject. Further support is lent to this notion by the fact that wage penalties for overweight and obese women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739946
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the … simultaneous model is then developed which has important consequences for estimates of the influence of gender, ethnicity, training … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
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-in-differences estimation strategy in the NHIS data, as has been done in several other data sets. Depending on the specification, we find that …
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overall job satisfaction do not vary widely by gender. This result is explained through the nature of our dataset, limited as …
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?consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …
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paper examines gender differences in giving focusing on the distribution of amounts donated and the probability of giving … account gender differences in individual characteristics such as household structure, education and income. The analysis also … examines differences in gender preferences for varying charitable causes. For most of the paper, separate analyses are …
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determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics … from five traditional Scottish Universities. Results reveal an aggregate gender salary differential for academic staff of …. The dominant contribution of rank to both the determination of female academic salaries and the gender salary gap suggests …
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