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We present empirical evidence that large structural shocks are followed by changes in labor market inequality …. Specifically, we study short-run fluctuations in adjusted gender wage gaps (unequal pay for equal work) following episodes of … declines in the gender wage gap. This decrease is driven mostly by episodes experienced among cohorts who enter the labor …
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the entire population and sub-groups. The results also indicate that brute luck of gender or ethnicity occurring at birth …This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using …
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differences across countries, gender, and economic contexts. Moreover we test hypotheses with regard to taste-based and …
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...
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Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular coefficient's “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this coefficient of adding covariates. This is problematic, due to sequence-sensitivity when added covariates are intercorrelated. Using the...
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cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the … the monopsony model in explaining these results. Differences in labour supply elasticities across gender and income groups …
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This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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In this paper we revisit the gender decomposition of wages in the presence of selection bias. We show that when labor … participation decision also highlights the importance of using data on both spouses for the analysis of the gender wage gap. Taking …. We analyze its potential impact by analyzing the gender earnings differential using Canadian census data …
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This paper presents the advantages of taking into account the distribution of the individual wage gap when analysing female wage discrimination. The limitations of previous approaches such as the classic Oaxaca-Blinder and the recent distributive proposals using quantile regressions or...
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Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003-12 suggests the existence of small but statistically significant racial/ethnic differences in time spent not working at the workplace. Minorities, especially men, spend a greater fraction of their workdays not working than do white non-Hispanics....
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