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Do services reduce gender inequality in labor markets? The service sector, knnowledge-intensive services and the gender pay gap
Dueñas, Diego; Iglesias, Carlos; Llorente, Raquel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145374
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Job promotion in mid-career: gender, recession and ‘crowding’
Addison, John; Ozturk, Orgul; Wang, Si - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258187
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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992
Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. Using microdata from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, we find that overall income inequality increased in 1989 but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259807
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Social Transfers and Inequality During the Polish Transition
Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
In general, most countries of the former Eastern bloc have experienced poor growth performance and large increases in income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been Poland, which has outstripped other transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113127
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Post-Soviet Globalization
Hoek, M. Peter van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but already occurred centuries ago. The first half of the 20th century seems an interruption of the move towards free trade. After World War II, however, the move to free trade resumed and gave rise to a sustained period of high economic growth in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622099
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Male-Female Labor Market Participation and the Extent of Gender-Based Wage Discrimination in Turkey
Günalp, Burak; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Acar, Elif Öznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258621
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Siblings, public facilities and education returns in China
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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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Subject of degree and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Italy
Noe', Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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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A Theory of Gender Wage Gap
Jellal, Mohamed; Nordman, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015594
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Identity matters: inter- and intra-racial disparity and labor market outcomes
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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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