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Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation : the Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary returns of one additional year of education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2016
non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507219
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Chutes and ladders : dual tracks and the motherhood dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - 2010
earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315297
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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405690
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001650591
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
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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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2021
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women' activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case...
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The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market
Kranz, Daniel Fernández; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276402
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The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879376
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism : Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2021
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
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