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Gender Pay Gap, Labor Unions and Firm Performance

Dugardin, Fabien-Antoine - 2020

Using detailed employee-employer administrative data, we analyze the impact of the gender pay gap on the performance of firms and find that it depends on the presence of labor unions. When the firm is not unionized, the gender pay gap reduces profitability. In contrast, when unions are present,...

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Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Fraga, Eduardo - 2017

This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years of professional life. We use longitudinal data with 16 years of the early career history of formal sector workers in Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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The Effect of Salary History Bans on Wages, Learning, and the Gender Pay Gap

Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2021

A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages themselves are both necessary to motivate optimal...

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Selection on ability and the early career growth in the gender wage gap

Fraga, Eduardo; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2017

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Should We Mind the Gap? Gender Pay Differentials and Public Policy

Shackleton, J. R. - 2009

Differences in the earnings of women and men are increasingly being used to justify regulation of the private affairs of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the...

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Ethnic Minorities Rewarded : Ethnostratification on the Wage Market in Belgium

Vertommen, Sara; Martens, Albert - 2007

Several previous researches have confirmed the hypothesis of ethnostratification, which holds that the labour market is … divided into different ethnic layers. While people of a European origin are over-represented in the top layers (the primary … working conditions and greater job insecurity. This paper deals with a very important condition of work: the wage. Does origin …

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Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa

Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano - 1998

Few countries have higher wage inequality than South Africa, where wages of African and white workers differ by a factor of five. Using survey data collected in 1993, the authors analyze the complex effect of unions on this wage gap. Among male African workers in the bottom decile of the wage...

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Unraveling the MNE wage premium

van der Straaten, Khadija; Pisani, Niccolò; Kolk, Ans - 2020

Whereas the field of International Business has extensively studied MNEs’ generic (positive) impact on host economies, but rarely on employee wages, economics research has only shown an overall MNE wage premium. We ‘unravel’ this premium, considering multiple levels of analysis and...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond 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...

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