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Gender gaps in pensions and health : Germany, France, and Denmark
Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; Rowold, Carla - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 43, pp. 436-442
This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to …-specific differences in depressive symptoms follow a similar pattern as the gender pension gap: Denmark has the lowest difference between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739858
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745407
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A cautionary note on using industry affiliation to predict income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289894
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A cautionary note on using industry affiliation to predict income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620938
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An examination of poverty and sexual orientation in the UK
Uhrig, S. C. Noah - 2014
Is there a link between sexuality and poverty? If so, has this relationship changed over time? What anti-poverty policies might be relevant to address issues related to sexuality and poverty? The report synthesises literature and adds top-line findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230513
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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437033
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Tastes for discrimination monopsonistic in labour markets
Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms’ pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310637
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The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality
Finkelstein, Amy; McQuillan, Casey C.; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …-tax financing are in the same ballpark as estimates of the impact of other leading drivers of labor market inequality, including … market inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248009
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Gender Wage Differences in Czech Public Healthcare : Results from the Selected Hospital
Hedija, Veronika - 2015
The aim of the study is to estimate the unexplained gender pay gap in the individual departments of the selected hospital, to find out whether these vary between the individual departments and if so, to identify the possible causes of these differences. We systematically examined the gender wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138671
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Long-Term Effect of International Trade on the Gender Wage and Educational Gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035163