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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

This paper utilizes a joint (ordered probit) occupational attainment and wage determination model to examine the channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors of ownership in Egypt. Using a large data set drawn from...

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sander, Seth G.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live and work in different locations (thus facing different...

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Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men whereas there are no … earnings gap, whereas family background plays a certain role as it affects the earnings of self-employed men and women quite …

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Raining stones? : female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Antòn, José-Ignacio; Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de; … - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 53-86

larger unemployment rate of female migrants is not explained by observable characteristics. In the case of earnings … differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant role, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender … ; earnings. …

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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Good workers for good jobs : improving education and workforce systems in the US

Holzer, Harry J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

Stagnant earnings and growing inequality in the US labor market reflect both a slowdown in the growth of worker skills … help raise worker earnings and reduce inequality. -- education ; workforce ; good jobs …

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Higher education externalities in Egyptian labor markets

Nazier, Hanan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 193-217

Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with governorate level data, this paper estimated the external return to …

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Optimal work effort, income and wage

Todorova, Tamara - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 121-137

We study work effort with its various determinants such as the educational level of the worker, the minimum or start-up salary as well as the initial endowment of the worker. By means of optimization we find that optimal work effort depends directly on the initial income available to the worker,...

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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these distributions into age, year and cohort effects....

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