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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670962
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Skill formation, employment discrimination, and wage inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China
Wang, Jun; Liao, Chengjuan; Wan, Xuan; Song, Hui - 2021
discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor market. Based on data from the 2014 China Family Panel Studies (CFPSs … industries. We also find employment discrimination resulting from skill differences in state-owned and non-state-owned sectors. A …
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A model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women's time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child education. The theoretical model is based on Agénor (2012), but differs in several important...
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women Over the Lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Goll, David; … - 2019
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK- BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106671
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Goll, David; … - 2020
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS. Based on a lifecycle model and using tax and welfare bene t reforms as a source of exogenous variation we evaluate the role of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094174
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Why inter-caste inequality in educational attainment still persists? : wealth and caste discrimination matters
Thorat, Sukhadeo K.; Khan, Khalid - In: The Indian economic journal 71 (2023) 1, pp. 256-275
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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Goll, David; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2019
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003766
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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020252
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … which a sharp increase in discrimination induced mass exit by one ethnic group and mass skill investment by the same group …
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