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Trade liberalization and gender inequality : can free-trade policies help to reduce gender inequalities in employment and wages?
Pieters, Janneke - 2015
Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is …
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665761
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670962
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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External pay transparency and the gender wage gap
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Wiesinger, Rene; … - 2023
We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We exploit a reform of Austria’s Equal Treatment Law to...
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Employer discrimination and the immutability of ethnic hierarchies : a field experiment
Vernby, Kåre; Dancygier, Rafaela M. - 2018
affect their employment chances - by adopting citizenship, acquiring work experience, or signaling religious practice - or … their employment chances by any of the tested means. Rather, ethnic hierarchies are critical: callback rates decline … employment chances. These findings highlight that immigrants have few tools at their disposal to escape ethnic penalties and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941258
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Gender Discrimination and Self-Employment Dynamics in Europe
Williams, Donald R. - 2015
This paper examines the effect that gender-based earnings discrimination has on self-employment dynamics among females …-2001 time period, we test the hypothesis that the probability of moving into self-employment is positively related to prior … who have lower than expected wage sector earnings are more likely to leave wage employment in the following year. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189988
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A comment on "Taste-based gender favouritism in high-strike decisions: evidence from the price is right"
Engel, Julia F.; Nüß, Patrick; Rudolph, Meike; … - 2024
We conduct a computational replication of Atanasov et al. (2023). In total, our analysis covers three variations: we use the cleaned dataset provided in the replication package, we clean the original data ourselves, and finally we extend the dataset to encompass an additional three years of data...
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Glass ceilings and glass doors : internal and external hiring in an organizational hierarchy
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Abraham, Mabel Botelho - 2011
With few exceptions, past research on the glass ceiling has assumed that the barriers to women’s advancement in organizations reflect sex differences in internal promotion processes. This assumption, however, has never before been the subject of close scrutiny. We examine sex differences in...
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Vocational training and gender : wages and occupational mobility among young workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kunze, Astrid (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003247587