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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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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 …
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A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …
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This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in Chinese labour market. In order to overcome the endogeneity problem of schooling, we consider the siblings structure and the available public facilities as instrumental...
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the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy … (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the gender pay gap before and after 2000. We show that also in Italy like in other … countries women are over-represented in Humanities while men in Engineering. We show that the gender wage gap has widened after …
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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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is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail …
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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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