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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949616
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Do female managers help to lower within-firm gender pay gaps? : public institutions vs. private enterprises
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2018
We analyze the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking separately at the private and public sector. Using a large linked employer-employee dataset for Poland and a non-parametric and parametric decompositions, we find that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955848
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Private-Public Sector Employment Choice and Wage Differential in Palestine : A Gender Perspective
Daoud, Yousef; Shanti, Ruba - 2012
This paper investigates employment sector choice for Palestinian men and women, the paper analyzes wage differential by gender and sector. The paper utilizes Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Labor Force Surveys for the years 1999, 2001, 2007, and 2010. Although returns to education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166292
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Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil
Vick, Brandon - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 10, pp. 1-28
This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707745
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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2021
The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity corrected wage equations are estimated for each sector for men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321112
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Public-private employment choice, wage differentials and gender in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001486849
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Public-private employment choice, wage differentials and gender in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt - 1999
There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609152
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The increase of the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis
Piazzalunga, Daniela; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura - 2016
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476261
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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David - 2018
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906506
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labour Force Survey
Mueller, Richard - 2019
Using the merged monthly Labour Force Survey from 2006 through 2018, we employ a variety of techniques to address the pay gap for males and females between four definitions of the public sector and the private sector, as well as the gender pay gap within each of these five sectors. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860310