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Why women do not ask : gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth
Pfeifer, Christian; Stephan, Gesine - In: Cambridge journal of economics 43 (2019) 2, pp. 295-310
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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Occupational sex-segregation, specialized human capital and wages : evidence from Britain
Perales, Francisco - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 4, pp. 600-620
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791102
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Educational mismatch and returns on human capital in the Spanish hospitality and travel agency sectors
García-Pozo, Alejandro; Sánchez-Ollero, José Luis; … - In: Tourism economics : the business and finance of tourism … 20 (2014) 2, pp. 337-353
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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Educational mismatch and gender : a comparison between industry and services in Spain
Lasso-Dela-Vega, Elena; Sánchez-Ollero, José-Luis; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 1, pp. 1-16
, due to the lack of studies of this phenomenon in the latter sector. We also analyse its effect on wages and its role in … creating a gender wage gap in the returns to a set of professional and personal characteristics. The heterogeneity in the … sector motivates interest in this comparative research between industry and services, which includes a gender perspective …
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Gender and immigration : double negative effects in the labor market outcomes of university graduates in Germany? ; conference paper
Bünstorf, Guido; Krabel, Stefan - 2014 - This version: February 2014
terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of …
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Wages, schooling and background : investments in men and women in urban Brazil
Strauss, John; Thomas, Duncan - 1991
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