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The evolution of educational wage differentials for women and men in Germany, from 1996 to 2019

Ordemann, Jessica; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12

This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany. We distinguish between degrees from academic universities, degrees from universities of applied sciences, and the master craftsman\craftswoman certificate. The educational reference...

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Structural Change in Developing Countries : Has it Decreased Gender Inequality?

Rendall, Michelle - 2012

This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...

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Structural change in developing countries : has it decreased gender inequality?

Rendall, Michelle - 2012

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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Employment, wages, and the gender gap in Mexico : evidence of three decades of the urban labor market

Cuellar, Cecilia Y.; Moreno, Jorge O. - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 2, pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the formal market and wages for each gender and quarter,...

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Changing returns to education during a boom? : the case of Ireland

McGuinness, Séamus (contributor); … - 2008

Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality?...

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Changes in Returns to Task-Specific Skills and Gender Wage Gap

Yamaguchi, Shintaro - 2016

What role did skilled-biased technological change play in narrowing the wage inequality, particularly between men and women? To answer that question this paper constructs a task-based Roy model in which workers possess a bundle of basic skills and occupations are characterized as a bundle of...

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The gender labor market gap in the digital economy

Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Viollaz, Mariana - 2019

Recent years have seen an ever-greater expansion of the digital economy, a development that may bring new opportunities to workers who were at a disadvantage in the traditional economy. We focus on a specific set of workers who belong to such a group: women. We study a skill set of particular...

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Changing returns to occupational skill and women's wages

Schran, Felix - 2019

This paper investigates to what extent changes in the returns to occupational skill and declining occupational segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by...

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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30

This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …

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