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returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap …
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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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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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We examine whether salary transparency influences gender pay inequality in the context of Canadian universities by … database, thus lowering the cost of monitoring the gender pay gap. We find that, on average, salary disclosure improves gender … pay equality but institutions respond in different ways. Despite little media attention around gender equality at the time …
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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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discrimination if orientation is not observable. Analogously, behavioural explanations of pay based on models of gender linked within … earnings, gender, LGB identity, coupling status, and the disclosure of sexual orientation in English National Health Service … (NHS) workplaces. The results reveal a robust gender pay gap of 4% in favour of males, but no overall LGB pay gap compared …
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This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …
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We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential … these two countries: subject of degree explains about 2-4 percent higher wages of male over female graduates after …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …
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returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …
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of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair …
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