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This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...
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1987 and Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1971 and 1988 to analyze how this dramatic decline in the gender gap was …. These 'gender-specific' factors were more than sufficient to counterbalance changes in both measured and unmeasured prices … observed relative changes in the gender gap among skill groups, specifically a faster closing of the gap at the bottom of the …
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Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis ... vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in...
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Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men%u2019s and women%u2019s … slopes account for about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap …
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This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …
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document a roughly 7% gender earnings gap amongst drivers. We completely explain this gap and show that it can be entirely … discrimination. Our results suggest that there is no reason to expect the “gig” economy to close gender differences. Even in the … gender-based differences in preferences and constraints can sustain a gender pay gap …
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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Occupations are segregated by sex today, but were far more segregated in the early to mid-twentieth century when married women began to enter the labor force in large numbers. It is difficult to rationalize sex segregation and 'wage discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from...
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In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … measured women's relative wage growth coincided with growth of wage inequality within-gender, and attribute the measured gender …
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