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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
channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … ; wage decomposition ; gender wage gap …
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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 … robust segregation effects. Working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender … differently. -- earnings differential ; gender pay gap ; Germany ; self-employment …
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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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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
migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both … differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant role, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender …
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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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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 and the growing matching of good-paying jobs to skilled workers. Improving the ties between colleges, workforce institutions, and employers would help more workers gain the...
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Optimal work effort, income and wage
Todorova, Tamara - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 121-137
more effort at the optimum. -- labor ; productivity of labor ; work effort ; income ; wage ; minimum wage …
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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
explained by the fact that education degrees are simply used as a device to signal higher ability without raising productivity …
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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 …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
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