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The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main …-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This … points to the fact that social norms, gender roles, and gender identity are at least partly responsible for the gap in …
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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 …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959761
Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703838
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ?assimilation literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate...
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international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a metaanalysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …
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We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential … these two countries: subject of degree explains about 2-4 percent higher wages of male over female graduates after …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …
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