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We investigate the gender pay gap in top corporate jobs for 2001-2007 and report that female managers receive 19 … to seven percent. While the gender pay gap is slightly below 5 percent for the fixed component, it is almost 10 percent …
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accrued through social connections, influences gender pay gaps. Consistent with homophily, the tendency to bond and interact …
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Using data from the OSIRIS database, we investigate the gender wage gap in top corporate jobs for the years 2000 till …
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Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality and draws policy implications. Over the past...
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publicly listed US firms, the authors analyze the gender pay gaps across the distribution of total compensation. In the …
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This paper investigates the CEO-to-employee pay gap. Empirical evidence is provided for a sample of about 900 publicly traded UK firms from 1984 to 1998. CEOs were paid about thirteen times the typical employee pay during the sample period. The CEO-to-employee pay ratio sharply increased from...
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is completely free of gender-based norms. Salaries are assigned through a points system that considers training level … the gender-related gaps existing in other, more arbitrary private work environments. In this article, we present the … unadjusted gender pay gap of 0.12 and adjusted or unexplained gaps of 0.07-0.09 obtained through a Mincer earnings regression and …
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examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …
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private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …
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