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graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and … firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education …
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We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn,...
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We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and … very similar number of hours per week, but men earn more than women across the pay distribution, with an unadjusted gender …
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The paper investigates the gender wage gap among recently graduated people, controlling for job and academic variables … and for the field of study, as women lag in highly remunerative majors. The raw gender gap in hourly wages is 5 … gender norms. Results indicate that childcare and part-time availability are correlated with lower gender wage gaps, while …
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Gender pay gaps in earnings are well-documented in the literature. However, new factors contributing to women's lower … among young women, to study gender pay gaps among tertiary education graduates with degrees in different fields of study … significant variation across different STEM fields both in the size of the gender pay gap and in how it changes over time. The gap …
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This paper explores gender wage dynamics using an administrative dataset covering Irish graduate earnings from 2010 … persistent motherhood effect for all field groupings. We examine and dismiss the possibility that the gender difference in …
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