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, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor … protected from the lower skill prices of the 1970s. The gender wage gap is found to increase sharply across the distribution in …
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This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …
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Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by almost 4 percentage points along the whole wage distribution …
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Indian manufacturers have invested significantly in technology upgradations since the economy opened up to foreign trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand within the Indian manufacturing sector. Estimating a dynamic...
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This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...
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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to … second and the third. The gender wage gap remains largely unexplained after controlling for different combinations of socio … middle of the wage distributions than the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover …
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