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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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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...
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and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
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, 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 …
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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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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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gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … remaining 35% are explained by shifts in occupational wages which increased within occupations important for female employment … Böhm et al. (2019) that average wages do not move as much as skill prices, I reestimate the part of the declining wage gap …
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female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …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 …
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graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and … firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education …
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