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Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …
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Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation … rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The gender differences in the characteristics of the labor force, which …
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A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …
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In the present paper I provide novel evidence on the formation of the gender pay gap with respect to directly measured …-level task information, I provide detailed evidence on the evolution of task contents and their gender-specific remuneration …
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Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The … question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the … uncover the relationship between occupational characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap. To do so, I apply a two-step approach …
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …
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Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present … differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in … the gross monthly salary can hardly be explained using the human capital approach. Adding variables on gender …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation …
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