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is completely free of gender-based norms. Salaries are assigned through a points system that considers training level … the gender-related gaps existing in other, more arbitrary private work environments. In this article, we present the … unadjusted gender pay gap of 0.12 and adjusted or unexplained gaps of 0.07-0.09 obtained through a Mincer earnings regression and …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … attributed to changes in (selection corrected) skill prices. The impact of movements in skill prices on the reduction in gender …
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This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable … private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the analysis shows that if a large part of the gender wage gap can be … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …
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This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
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capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn … terms of entering college. On the other hand, the gender earnings gap is reducing among the 1980s birth cohort relative to … younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 …
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gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our … have caught up and often even outperform men, substantial gender differences in earnings persist in all countries. These … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts …
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Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there … estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap … find overwhelming evidence that OLS seriously overestimate the unexplained gender wage gap. …
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