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Does Part-Time Employment Widen the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Twelve European Countries
Matteazzi, Eleonora; Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
of part-time employment and labor market segregation are much more important factors. A large share of the gender wage …
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Síle O’Dorchai; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. Moreover, except for Italy, they point to a persisting problem of occupational and sectoral segregation between men working …
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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The 2012 social balance sheet
Heuse, P. - In: Economic Review (2013) III, pp. 101-137
A new form introduced in 2012 for firms and associations filing full-format accounts paved the way for a new kind of analysis, such that a distinction could be made between the situations of women and men employed by these firms. A population of 8 862 firms formed the basis for assessing the...
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The wage penalty induced by part-time work: the case of Belgium
O'Dorchai, Sile; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois; … - In: Brussels Economic Review 48 (2005) 1-2, pp. 73-94
Substantial research has been devoted to the estimation and explanation of the gender wage gap. The effects of work status on wages have been studied somewhat less. This article draws on existing work to generate new estimates of the wage penalty associated with part-time employment in Belgium....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163114
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The wage penalty induced by part-time work: the case of Belgium
O'Dorchai, Sile; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois; … - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2005
Substantial research has been devoted to the estimation and explanation of the gender wage gap. The effects of work status on wages have been studied somewhat less. This article draws on existing work to generate new estimates of the wage penalty associated with part-time employment in Belgium....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005596855
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Part-time wage penalties in Europe: A matter of selection or segregation?
Matteazzi, Eleonora; Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
-time/part-time pay differential focusing on the contribution of segregation and selection in explaining the observed positive wage gap …. Results show that segregation matters in explaining the full-time/part-time wage gap. We find also evidence of a significant …
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Wage differentials between natives and cross-border workers within and across establishments
Jacques, BROSIUS; Jean-Claude, RAY; Bertrand, VERHEYDEN; … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2014
commuting workforce is concerned, like the non na- tional population in many other labor markets, by segregation into low …
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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL TRAINING AND EARNINGS PREMIUMS IN TAIWAN
Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Zveglich, Joseph; Wherry, … - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 4, pp. 527-560
International capital mobility and economic restructuring have brought training and skills acquisition to the forefront of policy dialogues. Taiwan has gone beyond most countries in promoting vocational education and setting strict quotas for schooling. Although the education plans do not have...
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Are we wasting our talent? Overqualification and overskilling among PhD graduates
Paolo, Antonio Di; Mañé, Ferran - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2014
Drawing on a very rich data set from a recent cohort of PhD graduates, we examine the correlates and consequences of qualification and skills mismatch. We show that job characteristics such as the economic sector and the main activity at work play a fundamental direct role in explaining the...
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