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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … wage gaps over the 1981-2015 period. Under our preferred method of accounting for selection, we find that the raw median …
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This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers … question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in preferences. The main … issue considered in this paper is whether gender differences in choices, especially with respect to the family and household …
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This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
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This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relationship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships are poorly described by linear or quadratic OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches...
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This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relation-ship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships are poorly described by linear or quadratic OLS specifications, which have been the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252839
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...
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glass ceiling we mean the existence of a gender wage gap significantly more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage … attributes versus returns to these attributes shaping the gender wage gap. The quantile regression estimates and the … decomposition analyses consistently show that the gender wage gap is more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage distribution …
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driving the gender wage gap, in particular compensating wage differentials. These results inform an analysis of sex pay … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …
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smaller extent by a decline in the gender wage gap. The gap has declined least among higher earning women - the average wage … effects of parenthood by gender. …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …
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