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Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 indicate that between 1996 and 2010 females on average lost some of the promotion momentum they had achieved at the beginning of mid-career, although they outperformed males in this regard. For both genders economic downturn has...
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important factors that can improve employment opportunities for women, reducing labor by gender differences. The objective of … ICTs such as Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) are changing some of the basics of labor gender differences. To do it: a …
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graduates contributes to the gender pay gap in Greece. The case of Greece is interesting as it is an EU country with … historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and one of the highest levels of occupational gender segregation among OECD … returns to academic disciplines are firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively …
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is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail …
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The paper measures the gender wage differentials among members of the Icelandic public sector union federation … last 15 years while the agreements have also been decentralized. The paper shows that although the gender wage differential … has fallen from 1994 to 2007 it is still significant. The base wage gender wage differential is smaller than the gender …
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Standard analysis of racial inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous binary variable. This approach obfuscates the importance of racial self-identity and clouds our ability to understand the relative importance of unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market...
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This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity. The mono-cultural model ignores nativity and ethnic differences among African Americans. The diversity model assumes that culture affects both intra- and interracial labor market disparity....
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the whole earnings distribution and the incidence of the gender gap in both sectors of the economy. Firstly, we find that … suffer a pay penalty. Secondly, the gender gap is substantially larger in the private sector. Lastly, we analyse what happens …
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The objective of this research is to understand if large gender employment and participation gaps in Macedonia can shed … some light on the gender wage gap. A large contingent of inactive women in Macedonia including long-term unemployed due to …, is outside employment, but is not necessarily having the worst labour-market characteristics. In addition, both gender …
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the whole earnings distribution and the incidence of the gender gap in both sectors of the economy. Firstly, we find that … suffer a pay penalty. Secondly, the gender gap is substantially larger in the private sector. Lastly, we analyse what happens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257709