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A care convergence? : quantifying wage disparities for migrant care workers across three welfare regimes

Lightman, Naomi - 2018

Social policy literature is divided on the ongoing relevance of welfare regime typologies given considerable heterogeneity within as well as between categories. Using 2010 Luxembourg Income Study data, this study disaggregates high and low status paid care work, quantifying any associate wage...

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The gender pay gap across countries : a human capital approach

Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2015

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and …

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Sectoral trends in earnings inequality and employment International trade, skill-biased technological change, or labour market institutions?

Thewissen, Stefan; Wang, Chen; Vliet, Olaf van - 2013

Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...

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How the human capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2004 - June 2003, Latest Revision: March 2004

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How the human capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon

Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017

This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...

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Household earnings in Putin's Russia : distributional changes across socioeconomic groups, 2000-2016

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2022

Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir...

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German stagnation vs. Swedish progression : gender wage gaps in comparison, 1960 - 2006

Gärtner, Svenja - 2013

This article provides a comparative analysis of the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany and Sweden … traditions penetrate institutional settings and ensnare Germany in a cultural trap with regard to gender equality. While Sweden … concerns (e.g., marriage and motherhood) decrease female income in Germany to a far greater extent than do such factors in …

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Occupational attainment in Germany and the United States 2000-2016 : [the role of gender and immigration status]

Park, Paige N. - 2022

occupational segregation from 2000 to 2016 in Germany and the United States among immigrant and nativeborn parents. Multinomial … inequality in the workforce, Germany fares worse than the US in their gendered occupational outcomes overall. While the gap … between mothers’ and fathers’ probabilities of employment in the highest status jobs is shrinking over time in Germany …

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Payoff or penalty? : a comparison of the marriage wage differential for men and women across 15 nations

Geist, Claudia - 2006

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