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affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. …
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A number of authors have documented an increase in earnings or income inequality in New Zealand during the late 1980s … earnings data and extends it to analyse changes in inequality between men and women. Across the total working-age population … returns were responsible for part of the increase. Among the subset of workers, earnings inequality increased significantly …
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thesis that gender-specific patterns in the evaluation of personal earnings are both reduced and increased in dual … evaluations of the justice of their personal earnings. In the first step we derive three criteria used by individuals to evaluate … the fairness or justice of their personal earnings: compensation for services rendered, coverage of basic needs, and the …
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …
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earnings of male professors and the fact that female professors have not experienced a similar cross cohort decline. Also …
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substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of glass ceilings, in both sectors. The earnings gaps amongst the higher income …This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the …
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, interestingly, not found to be relevant in the Australian context. Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are …We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning … established, with these earnings gaps found to be predominantly related to women receiving lower returns to their observable …
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earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings …
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Opaque products enable service providers to hide specific characteristics of their service fulfillment from the customer until after purchase. Prominent examples include internet-based service providers selling airline tickets without defining details, such as departure time or operating...
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This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
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