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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and …-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wage gaps in Trinidad and Tobago’s private and public sector and its … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Educational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap for Recent College Graduates in Colombia
Cepeda Emiliani, Laura - 2012
In this paper we show the importance of subject of degree in explaining the gender wage gap in Colombia. In order to minimize the influence of gender differences in experience, promotions, and job changes on the wage gap, we focus on college graduates who have a formal job and who have been in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110187
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Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation
Plug, Erik; Webbink, Dinand; Martin, Nicholas G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
prejudiced occupations. We show that our segregation results are largely driven by those gay and lesbian workers with disclosed … with productive skills and vocational preferences. Our segregation estimates are generally large and consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149141
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Sexual orientation, prejudice and segregation
Plug, Erik; Webbink, Dinand; Martin, Nicholas G. - 2011
prejudiced occupations. We show that our segregation results are largely driven by those gay and lesbian workers with disclosed … with productive skills and vocational preferences. Our segregation estimates are generally large and consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278822
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012
different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either the extent of segregation or the … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and … one fifth from job segregation. We also show that the widely documented glass ceiling effect operates mainly through …
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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Gender-based educational and occupational segregation in the Caribbean
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
This study analyzes the evolution of gender-based educational and occupational segregation, from 1999 to 2016, for four … segregation in explaining occupational segregation. There are four major findings. First, aggregate gender–based educational and … occupational segregation have remained almost constant over time at approximately 7.5 percent and 18.5 percent, respectively. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883851
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2007
We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language, and by race and ethnicity, and - since skill … generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are more or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072039
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Discouraged worker effect and labor market behavior of urban married women
Tayal, Deeksha; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 93-122
women from participating in the labor market and the prevalence of underemployment, in terms of overqualification by …
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