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Changing returns to occupational skill and women's wages
Schran, Felix - 2019
segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the … wage inequality was roughly 13 percentage points larger than the impact of changes in average wages alone. Similar findings …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
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 … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy
Ryan, CJ - 2020
Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts : The Impact of Gender Bias on Career Progression
Bol, Jasmijn C.; Fogel-Yaari, Hila - 2023
Progress has been made in the last century toward reducing gender bias in society at large and in the workplace specifically. The negative impact gender differentiation has on women’s careers, however, is not gone. Differential treatment and biases have moved from explicit to more implicit....
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Gender and ethnic inequalities in LAC countries
Canelas, Carla; Salazar, Silvia - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the region. Indeed, the results indicate that women are highly discriminated in...
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Gender and ethnic inequalities in LAC countries
Canelas, Carla; Salazar, Silvia - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the region. Indeed, the results indicate that women are highly discriminated in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466486
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China's urban gender wage gap : a new direction?
Song, Jin; Sicular, Terry; Gustafsson, Björn - 2017
Using data from the urban household surveys of the China Household Income Project for the years 1995, 2002, 2007 and 2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have contributed to this gap. Similar to past studies, we find a...
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Differences in full-time work experience explain almost a quarter of the gender pay gap in management positions
Holst, Elke; Marquardt, Anne - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 34/35, pp. 315-324
Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in relevant wage determinants are excluded, a pay gap of 11...
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The salary taboo : privacy norms and the diffusion of information
Cullen, Zoë B.; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2020 - This Draft: January 2020
The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of these information frictions....
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