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Economists and sociologists have proposed arguments for why there can exist wage penalties for work involving helping and caring for others, penalties borne disproportionately by women. Evidence on wage penalties is neither abundant nor compelling. We examine wage differentials associated with...
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opportunities helped promote growth, the verdict on the role of large gender pay gaps as a driver of growth is inconclusive at this …
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Using a rich and comparable matched employer-employee data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps … discrimination may influence female occupational distributions. We find these latter factors to have a significant impact on gender …
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Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …
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Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … influencing female occupational distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on gender differentials …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …
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Das Thema einer gesetzlichen Mindestquote für Frauen in Führungspositionen der Privatwirtschaft ist in Deutschland politisch und gesellschaftlich umstritten. Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Thematik näher und gibt eine Einschätzung der Frauenquote und weiterer Maßnahmen, die die Ungleichstellung...
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women and to the size of the (unadjusted) gender wage gap at the different levels of the wage distribution. The gender wage …
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …
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men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between … explaining differences defined by gender and second for industrial firms and explaining differences defined by firm size and …
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