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attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …
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increases with marriage and number of children among women but not among men. These demographic factors explain a sizable … constraints, mainly in the form of the mean offered wages and rates of job arrival and destruction, explain most of the gender …
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Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and … differences in working time between women and men throughout their working lives. An important step is more individual time … sovereignty for both women and men in their jobs and a change in corporate culture to accommodate that. …
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Work experience is a key variable in earnings function estimates and wage gap decompositions. Because data on actual work experience are rare, studies commonly use proxies, such as potential experience. But potential experience is identical for all individuals of the same age and level of...
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In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …
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International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey and International Social Survey Program, we show that women use their … skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender … penalty of partnered women is halved once we control for working hours and hours spent on housework. Finally, we do not find …
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The paper investigates the gender wage gap in relation to the multi-dimensional human capital measure, asking which human capital components are most valued in the European labour markets. Relying on the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for seventeen...
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