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produce in practice. The paper identifies four main regulatory forces that shape the quantum and basis of the wages and non …
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This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …
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/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more …This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health …
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weakly associated with women's remuneration than with men's. This mainly reflects an interaction between unobserved … individual characteristics and firm recruitment policies. The kinds of firm that best identify and advance talented women are …
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In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data to estimate individual fixed effects for men and women. Moving from an entirely male to …
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England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables estimates reveal large returns for both men and women. However, the … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap …
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degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to … women. Third, we estimate the net present value and internal rate of return for each degree, which account for the time and …
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In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit … heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine personality traits have a 4.3 percentage points greater likelihood of gaining …, women with masculine personality traits have an occupational access advantage, as compared to those exhibiting feminine …
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In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit … heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine personality traits have a 4.3 percentage points greater likelihood of gaining …, women with masculine personality traits have an occupational access advantage, as compared to those exhibiting feminine …
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We examine whether salary transparency influences gender pay inequality in the context of Canadian universities by exploiting a policy change enacted in one Canadian province that required salary disclosure through a publicly searchable database, thus lowering the cost of monitoring the gender...
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