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This paper focuses on the impact that gender segregation in the labour market exerts on the underemployment gender gap … for young adult workers in Spain. In order to analyse the relative importance of segregation in this gap, we develop a …
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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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This paper presents the findings of an artifactual field experiment conducted in urban Ecuador to investigate …
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This article provides a comparative analysis of the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany and Sweden during the period 1960-2006. Despite the economic similarities including broad social safety nets, the gap has developed differently since 1960. This analysis accounts for micro- and...
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This article provides a comparative analysis of the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany and Sweden during the period 1960-2006. Despite the economic similarities including broad social safety nets, the gap has developed differently since 1960. This analysis accounts for micro- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713242
What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an occupational general equilibrium model with heterogeneous...
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For this study, the author inspects the relationship between segregation in the workplace (measured as the proportion … female in job cells) and the gender wage gap using linked longitudinal employer-employee data from the German Employment …
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We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …
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Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the Structural Earnings Study merged with occupational task...
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Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is …-comparability between male and female employment. To address these problems the study uses a matching approach, which we also extend to a … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …
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