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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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Do women ask?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2016
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158043
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Selection and the measured black-white wage gap among young women revisited
Albrecht, James W.; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan B. - 2014
Derek Neal (JPE 2004) used the NLSY79 to show that the observed median log wage gap between young white and young black women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use...
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Are Women in Supervisory Positions More Discriminated Against? A Multinomial Approach
Biagetti, Marco - 2016
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the higher the job position is. This analysis is carried out by separating the Italian labor market among supervisors and non supervisors. Once the selection terms are accounted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992505
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Are Women in Supervisory Positions More Discriminated Against? : A Multinomial Approach
Scicchitano, Sergio - 2016
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the higher the job position is. This analysis is carried out by separating the Italian labor market among supervisors and non supervisors. Once the selection terms are accounted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992506
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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 … experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education. Training is potentially 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 … of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106671
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Lucky women in unlucky cohorts : gender differences in the effects of initial labor market conditions in Latin America
Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; … - 2022
This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
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The quiet revolution in women's human capital and the gender earnings gap in the People's Republic of China
Li, Zhengyang; Zhao, Guochang - 2020
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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