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Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Unequal expectations : gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students

Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020

Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...

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Combating Inequality : The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities

Pettinicchio, David - 2020

This paper addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009-2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership is especially beneficial for people...

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Gender wage discrimination by distribution of income in Mexico, 2005-2020

Mendoza González, Miguel Ángel - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 29 (2020), pp. 1-20

This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this end, a number of variables is selected to reflect workers' human capital, household circumstances and workplace characteristics; then, a novel non-parametric method decomposes...

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Social segregation and the dynamics of group inequality

Bowles, Samuel (contributor); Sethi, Rajiv (contributor) - 2006

We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …, provided that social segregation is sufficiently great, (ii) there is threshold level of integration above which group … acquiring human capital can expand the range over which reducing segregation can be Pareto-improving. -- segregation ; networks …

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Group Inequality

Bowles, Samuel - 2013

We explore the combined effect of segregation in social networks, peer effects, and the relative size of a historically … labor market discrimination when segregation is sufficiently great. Under these conditions, group inequality may be …

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Distributional differences and the Native American gender wage gap

Burnette, Jeffrey; Zhang, Weiwei - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/46, pp. 1-18

We use the Theil index and data from the 2012-2016, American Community Survey 5-Year Sample to document and analyze gender wage inequality for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women across single, multiracial and ethnic identity groups. Mean differences in hourly wages by gender...

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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too

Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020

This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We...

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Two faces of the ICT revolution : desegregation and minority-majority earnings inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2005

) affects socio-economic outcomes. In the context of minority-majority relations, social distances and segregation determine the … interaction with the larger society. I interpret the reversal of the segregation trend that occurred in the late 1970s as a … occurred in extraordinarily segregated areas and in the case of recent immigrants. -- segregation ; earnings inequality …

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Perpetuating Inequality : What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages

Bessen, James E. - 2020

Pay gaps for women and minorities have persisted after accounting for observable differences. Why? If employers can access applicants' salary histories while bargaining over wages, they can take advantage of past inequities, perpetuating inequality. Recently, a dozen US states have banned...

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