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The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap : evidence from Morocco
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021
The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to … one of the rare attempts to elicit the growth potential of a reduction in the employment gap in a low-income country. …
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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status …
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Gender-specific occupational segregation, glass ceiling effects, and earnings in managerial positions : results of a fixed effects model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826704
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Glass ceiling effect and earnings : the gender pay gap in managerial positions in Germany
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2009
Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858725
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Gender-specific occupational segregation, glass ceiling effects, and earnings in managerial positions : results of a fixed effects model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308938
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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance
Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014
This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...
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Does personality matter? : the impact of the Big Five on the migrant and gender wage gaps
Brenzel, Hanna; Laible, Marie-Christine - 2016
We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the...
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The impact of family composition on educational achievement
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Yen-chien; Liu, Jin-tan - 2014
Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...
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Age and gender differences in job opportunities
Humpert, Stephan - 2012
There is only a few literature on age specific occupational segregation. In this descriptive paper, I focus on job opportunities for newly hired older male and female workers. It is an enriched replication study of Hutchens (ILRR,1988), who showed that firms employ older workers, but hire them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009513289
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683245