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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …
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present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or … question by examining the association between the share of female employees and profitability. Using data from manufacturing … establishments, the empirical analysis suggests that there is a positive association between the share of women and profitability in …
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This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and … imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial composition before China entered the global market in 2001....
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial composition before China entered the global market in 2001....
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occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …
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discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on …
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