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Using the VHLSS data in 2008 and 2016, we want to estimate the gender wage disparity in the formal sector of Vietnam, especially looking for the impacts of education and private firms on such a gap. Under the unconditional quantile regression (UQR) method, we found that the education and private...
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China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …
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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 …
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married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …
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married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …
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By taking advantage of a new hand-collected dataset on CEO educational networks between 1992 and 2013, this paper studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that is, have extremely large networks). Second, while...
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This paper documents gender differences in social ties and develops a theory that links them to disparities in men's and women's labor market performance. Men's networks lead to better access to information, women's to higher peer pressure. Both affect effort in a model of teams, each beneficial...
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In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more...
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