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Attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a … small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap. -- wages ; gender ; risk ; wage gap …

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Attitudes Towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap

Le, Anh T. - 2010

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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2005

Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...