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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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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 empirical …
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private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...
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die berufliche Qualifikation, das Geschlecht, den Erwerbsstatus, die Branchenzugehörigkeit und das Alter. Die Analyse …
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legislation. I study here how gender wage inequality differs across formal and informal jobs in Brazil. The raw gender wage gap is … characteristics. Controlling for endogenous selection into formal vs. informal jobs, I find that the gender gap in wage offers is high … women. I discuss the potential implications of these findings regarding the effect of labour market regulation on gender …
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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 …
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At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
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capital characteristics and the effect of firm characteristics in explaining the gender wage gap. Furthermore, I implement the … rent-sharing to a lesser extent than their male colleagues. This is the source of the largest part of the pay gap. Gender … differential. -- gender wage gap ; decomposition ; quantile regression …
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