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This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution … distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock{in effects are still stronger for …
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We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …
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Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … employees), but look at within-firm gender wage differentials. Our results indicate that the mean GWG within firms is smaller …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution … distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock{in effects are still stronger for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059053
A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …
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This paper contributes descriptive evidence on the development of the gender wage gap for different skill groups and …
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, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that … that we use linked employer-employee data to look at within-firm gender wage differentials. To investigate the theoretical … hypotheses regarding the effect of selected human resource measures on gender wage inequality, we calculate a firm …
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, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap. …
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This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...
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heterogeneous effects of international trade on the gender wage gap within sectors. Firms operate in an oligopoly where prejudiced … rents and with them the average gender wage gap in sectors that were sheltered from competition prior to trade …
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