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paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by the workplace in which the employee works. Evidence for … workplace and occupational segregation as partial explanations of the earnings gap is presented. Having allowed also for … individual worker characteristics there remains a substantial within-workplace and within-occupation gender earnings gap. The …
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In this study, I look at whether individuals treat overweight workers differently from slender workers when deliberating about bonuses and promotions. Using a nationally representative sample of over 1700 subjects, I experimentally vary the performance ratings and the apparent weight of...
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Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by occupation and industry. Previous studies have found that most of the gap remains unexplained by personal and job characteristics. However, key job characteristics, occupation and...
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This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...
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Using new linked employee-workplace data for Britain in 2004, we find that the nature of the public private pay gap …. Decomposition analysis further reveals that the contribution of differences in workplace characteristics to the public private … associated with higher relative earnings for those in the private sector, an important workplace characteristic for the public …
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This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics … allowance is explicitly made for the possibility of both workplace and occupational segregation across each group. Individual … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking …
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We conduct a computational replication of Atanasov et al. (2023). In total, our analysis covers three variations: we use the cleaned dataset provided in the replication package, we clean the original data ourselves, and finally we extend the dataset to encompass an additional three years of data...
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Ajwad and Kurukulasuriya examine wage inequalities in Sri Lanka's formal sector using data from the Sri Lanka Integrated Survey 1999-2000. The study aims to: Investigate whether the labor market is characterized by wage disparities among ethnic and gender groups. Identify the determinants of...
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The author uses data from annual wage surveys conducted in 1994 and 1995 by Medical Economics Research Group to study differences in pay and productivity between male and female veterinarians in the wage-salary sector. The gender gap in average earnings was 15%. When controls for various...
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subsequent implications for men and women's pay in the workplace. We use data from an online crowdworking platform, where workers …
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