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Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …
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and male workers. The wage analysis reveals that, on average, the gender wage gap has been lowest in routine cognitive …
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …
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important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …We examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal … productivity gaps observed at the lower end of the productivity distribution. Using decomposition methods, we find that about 73 …
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the …
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impact of international trade on the gender wage gap could be positive or negative depending on the initial size of Becker …
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gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012026
effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …
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