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opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …
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Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …
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We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained sequential job search, and can choose to improve their...
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This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … from developing countries, we measure long-term trends, describe geographical patterns, and estimate correlates of gender … gender gap. Across countries, the gender gap is smaller in richer countries, with lower fertility rates, and more …
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We estimate wage differentials between foreign- and native-born workers across developed and developing economies. We leverage internationally harmonised microdata covering 21 countries, 20 years and 1.5 million individuals and employ counterfactual decomposition techniques. We find that...
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We estimate wage differentials and compare inequality trends between foreign-born and native-born workers across developed economies and developing economies. We leverage large internationally harmonised microdata covering 21 countries, 20 years and 1.5 million individuals and employ...
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The literature has robustly documented a negative migrant-native wage gap in developed economies. Yet empirical evidence of pay differences has been elusive for developing countries. We approach this question by leveraging internationally harmonised microdata with 1.5 million individuals from 6...
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networks for on-the-job outcomes, including emerging literature on gender and networks. While there is consensus on the … literature examines whether women benefit from referrals as much as men: gender homophily might play a part in some contexts …
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The main emphasis of this article is focused on the growing problem of structural unemployment in selected group of transition countries. Namely, if a certain region has a greater degree of unemployment rate than the frictional one, and if another region shows greater number of available...
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