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so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth … discrimination began to be eroded. These factors, together with a series of supply-side changes, meant that women were more easily …
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. Further on we can show that this kind of gender-specific discrimination can be found particularly in leisure-time clubs and … for a discrimination of women in filling management positions in the volunteer sector. It turns out that women have a … gender specific differences in filling volunteer management positions. …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …
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that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …
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and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the …
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This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …
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of other key variables, such as gender and educational attainment. …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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