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2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the factors that determine the gender pension gap in Europe. In … risk factors that determine the gender pension in Europe, we use EU-SILC and LFS data from Eurostat. For our analysis we … the gender pension gap. Women working part time, and gender differences in working life duration, were found to be the two …
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Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the … impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university sector, focusing on the Russell Group of top … increased by around 0.62 percentage points compared to male counterparts, reducing the gender pay gap by 4.37%. The effect is …
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The gender pay gap increases with age: While the average gross hourly wage gap between male and female 30-year-olds is …
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employment trajectories of female faculty. The Athena SWAN Charter is a gender equality initiative that formally recognises good … (STEMM) through an accreditation process. We find that the gender wage gap closes after Athena SWAN accreditation. However …
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This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of … the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage … quantify the importance of changes to preferences and relative demand for exibility on the gender wage gap. Higher relative …
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Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in … gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. Despite the relatively common institutional … and policy context, the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland is found to be far smaller than in the rest of the UK. This can …
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