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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013

An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...

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Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap

Dostie, Benoît; Li, Jiang; Card, David E.; Parent, Daniel - 2020

We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...

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Family, firms and the gender wage gap in France

Coudin, Elise; Maillard, Sophie; Tô, Maxime - 2018

In France, in 2014, women's hourly wages were on average 14.4 % lower than men's. Beyond differentials in observed characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To answer that question, we apply the approach of...

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The impact of female managers on the gender pay gap: Evidence from linked employer–employee data for Germany

Hirsch, Boris - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 348-350

We find that increasing the female share in first-level management by 10% points decreases the unexplained within-job gender pay gap by 0.5 log points. The effect is more pronounced for the female share in second-level than in first-level management.

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany

Velling, Johannes - 1995

We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …

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Is There an Ethnic Pay Gap in Germany? Evidence from a Representative Sample of the Adult Population

Ayaita, Adam - 2023

amounts to 2.7% lower wages for ethnic minority (vs. ethnic majority) employees, indicating potential wage discrimination …

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Identifying age penalty in women's wages: New method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; van Staveren, Irene - 2018

Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...

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