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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
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The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main …-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This … points to the fact that social norms, gender roles, and gender identity are at least partly responsible for the gap in …
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Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …
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The gender pay gap (GPG) remains a persistent phenomenon in contemporary labor markets. Despite a vast body of research … differential by 41 percent. Part-time employment has been the only indictor that enlarged the gender pay gap (17 percent) between …
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origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market … segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we investigate whether immigrant women experience more difficulties on the … 2015 we deal with interaction patterns of ethnic origin and gender regarding various labour market outcomes for immigrants …
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observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between …, occupations. A decomposition exercise reveals that while explained factors have become more important contributors to the gender … unobservables, i.e. discrimination, is likely to have declined over time. Finally, technological change as measured by job tasks …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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" (rather than a definition based on payment). Examining wage discrimination with respect to gender in Germany, we find that … gender wage discrimination is exacerbated if considered in such a framework, as women are faced not only with a lower …In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive framework for analysing wage discrimination. This framework assesses wage …
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Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...
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