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Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984866
This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it...
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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of the telework law, becoming an important factor for both employees and employers. In this context, the main goal of …
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upon previous researches to examine gender gaps in survival, business outcomes, growth rates and financial capital … same as their male-owned counterparts. We found no gender gaps in debt capital injection ratios. However, we found women …
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A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …
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Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …
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satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm … effects. To gain insights into the reasons for this difference, we further investigate training characteristics by gender. We …
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