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Beneath the surface : the decline in gender injury gap

Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - 2013

Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...

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Insiders, Outsiders, and Involuntary Unemployment : Sexual Harassment Exacerbates Gender Inequality

Chen, Daniel L. - 2018

Is labor market gender inequality due to physiological differences, labor market choices, or discrim- ination? Using … pro-plaintiff sexual harassment precedent reduced gender inequality and spurred the adoption of sexual harassment human …

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The Effect of Salary History Bans on Wages, Learning, and the Gender Pay Gap

Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2021

A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages themselves are both necessary to motivate optimal...

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The Alleged Gender Pay Gap : A Comment on Horwitz

McGee, Robert W. - 2017

This article comments on an article by Steven Horwitz, who argued that most of the gender pay gap can be explained by factors other than discrimination, such as life choices. The author also raises the question of whether there is a moral duty to discriminate on the basis of gender in some...

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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 … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

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Puzzle me this? : the Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018

We investigate within the context of Viet Nam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify household and commune characteristics and...

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Gender gaps in wages and non-monetary benefits : evidence from Ethiopia's manufacturing sector

Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; … - 2024

Using two rounds of panel firm- and worker-level data, this paper studies the gender gap in monetary and non-monetary compensation as well as work-related wellbeing among full-time workers in the agro-processing and leather sectors in Ethiopia. After controlling for year-fixed effects, the...

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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? : A Case Study of Australia

Paul, Satya; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Yasmeen, Wahida - 2004

This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants...

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The US gender pay gap in the 1990s: slowing convergence

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2006

Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, we study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We find that changes in human capital did not contribute to the slowdown, since women's relative human capital improved comparably in...

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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

Blundell, Richard W.; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, Hidehiko; … - 2004

assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the ?return? to education …

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