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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This metastudy provides a...

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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage discrimination as it concerns differences in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726798

The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...

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Market orientation and gender wage gaps : an international study

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...

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Mentoring and Segregation : Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

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Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - 2001

using panel data for Austrian firms. As indicators for firm performance we use standardized wages. For white-collar wages … direction. For blue-collar wages we find a positive association between dispersion and standardized wages between firms, but no …

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