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Disparities in economic outcomes among different ethnic, racial, or religious groups continue to be serious concerns in most economies. Relative economic standings of different groups are rather persistent, although some groups initially in disadvantaged positions successfully caught up with...
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of children (5-15 years) in the household have shown negative effect on contribution of women in household budget. The …Abstract: The paper analyzed the contribution of informally employed women (for the age group of 16-60 years) in their … household budget. The urban informal sector absorbs the women workers largely. What are the determinants of their contribution …
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This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in …
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tradeoff between having more children and investing more resources in the human capital of each child as a critical force in …
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This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to … 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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determination. We demonstrate that more qualified women are then offered much lower wages than men at the equilibrium. This result …In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage …
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returns to academic disciplines are firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively …-female pay gap in Greece. Risk-augmented earnings functions (Hartog, 2006) indicate that Greek women seek for less risky …
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The paper measures the gender wage differentials among members of the Icelandic public sector union federation Association of Academics (BHM). The collective bargaining agremeents of the member unions have changed dramatically during the last 15 years while the agreements have also been...
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change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …
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characteristics (size, employees’ average education, capital/labor ratio, and remoteness of selling markets) and average wages. We … and quantitatively important positive joint effects on wages. The national-market orientation effects (with respect to … local-market orientation) on labor composition and wages are at least as important as the international-market effects (with …
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