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Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups? : the case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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Demand Effects of Gender Inequality in Wages and Female Bargaining Power
Badru, Ruth - 2020
This paper examines the influence of gender inequality in the determination of effective demand in the US, the UK …-run effects and short-run dynamics of gender wage inequality and female bargaining power on aggregate consumption … Australia; we do not find conclusive evidence to show that rising gender wage inequality had a dampening effect on the time path …
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Integrating gender into a labour economics class
Strenio, Jacqueline; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - In: Advances in economics education 2 (2023) 1, pp. 26-44
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Digitalisation and women's workforce : participation in the Indo-Pacific
Watson, Timothy; Corliss, Michael; Le, Michelle - In: Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of … 21 (2018) 1, pp. 45-74
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Integrating gender into a labor economics class
Strenio, Jacqueline; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2023
This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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Do women ask?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2016
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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Lucky women in unlucky cohorts : gender differences in the effects of initial labor market conditions in Latin America
Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; … - 2022
This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179196
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Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064241
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Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102066