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Employment and remuneration of Irish chartered accountants : evidence of gender differences
Brennan, Niamh; Nolan, Patrick - 1998
Literature on gender based salary differentials has proliferated in recent years but there have been few studies on …. Employee-related and employer-related factors influencing remuneration were examined including Gender, Work experience, Level … of responsibility, Employment contract and Size and Industry. Gender was a significant explanatory variable in explaining …
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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination
Jolliffe, Dean - 2001
workers; or it may be the result of rewarding non-economic characteristics such as gender. Using data from the 1995 …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model …
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The child penalty in Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos
(trabajando menos días). ; The role of parenthood in the gender pay gap has been extensively discussed in the literature. Using … men’s remain unaffected. The gender gap is even larger ten years after the birth. Our ... …
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Working Inflow, Outflow, and Churning
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - 2003
Linked employer-employee data from the Finnish business sector is used in an analysis of worker turnover. The data is an unbalanced panel with over 219 000 observations in the years 1991-97. The churning (excess worker turnover), worker inflow (hiring), and worker outflow (separation) rates are...
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Coping with low pay: cognitive dissonance and persistent disparate earnings profiles
Watson, Duncan; Webb, Robert; Birdi, Alvin - 2005
The paper focuses on an employee’s perception of his or her own labour market outcome. It proposes that the basic earnings function, by adopting an approach that ignores perception effects, is likely to result in biased results that will fail to understand the complexities of the wage...
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Are there pecuniary compensations for working conditions in the UK?: SKOPE Research Paper No. 59, October 2005
Fernández, Rosa M.; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2005
This paper explores the nature of inter-industry wage differentials that are not explained by personal characteristics. We document the presence and persistence of a significant contribution of industry affiliation to wage dispersion in the UK. Competing theoretical explanations for this finding...
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Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions
De Hoyos, R. E. - 2006
The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the...
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Earnings - tenure profiles in the U.K. public and private sectors
Coleman, James S. - 1994
The thesis examines the effect of tenure on earnings in the British public and private sectors. The characteristic differences between the labour markets associated with the two sectors are examined. Several theories underlying the earnings-tenureeffect are then assessed for their suitability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466013
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Public sector pay gap in France : new evidence using panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Melly, Blaise - 2008
We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean andat different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account forunobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations on panel data and, departingfrom usual practice, allow...
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Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence
Burda, Michael C.; Schmitd, Christoph M. - 1997
Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can arise either because workers have different endowments of human capital characteristics or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476695