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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 the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Earning differentials by occupational categories : gender, race and regions
Arraes, Ronaldo de Albuquerque e; Menezes, Francisca … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 3, pp. 363-386
Analyzing the income differentials amongst the Brazilian workers' occupations is the focus of this paper. Due to the wide diversity of occupations cataloged by the IBGE (around 800), a theoretical procedure is applied to reduce them to only seven in order to allow statistical treatment of the...
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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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Remedying 'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1999
of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
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'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1998
of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208671
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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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The Gap that Survived the Transition : The Gender Wage Gap Over Three Decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and the labour force survey micro data is employed from 1989 to 2020. The …
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U.S. long-term earnings outcomes by sex, race, ethnicity, and place of birth
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M.; Janicki, Hubert P. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1879-1945
This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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Job Prospects and Pay Gaps : Theory and Evidence on the Gender Gap from U.S. Cities
Bidner, Chris - 2016
Are differences in the quality of workers' prospects outside of their current employment relationship influential in generating pay differentials? We consider the role of an economy's industrial structure in generating differences in outside prospects, and apply our analysis to the gender pay...
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Wage Differentials by Race and Sex : The Roles of Taste Discrimination and Labor Market Information
Neumark, David - 2000
Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample …
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