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Regarding predominantly male jobs (using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth): While both sexes prefer male jobs, women like the pay and not the job-amenities; men appreciate both. Most of the women's pay premium in male jobs suggests compensating differentials
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Job satisfaction has a significant and negative impact on voluntary job quits that may vary in size by gender. If women … are more likely than men to quit dissatisfying jobs and therefore interrupt their careers, then gender gaps in earnings …, labor force participation and leadership roles may persist. However, the improvement of these gender gaps over time may …
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A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that … contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women’s traditional role in the household. Child … a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers in the …
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I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...
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Gender wage differentials in the UK are examined using a general equilibrium search model. This framework permits an … assessment of male-female differences in labour market behaviour on gender wage differentials. The model captures worker …. The results indicate labour market behaviour differences play a role in determining gender wage differentials within …
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This paper has two main parts. In the first, we describe a method that smooths the objective function in a general class of indirect inference models. Our smoothing procedure makes use of importance sampling weights in estimation of the auxiliary model on simulated data. The importance sampling...
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We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
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occupational segregation or crowding as a determinant of the gender wage differential …
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We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
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