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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human … discrimination. …
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employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from …
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an entirely female occupation entails a loss in individual earnings of twelve percent in Britain, six percent in … disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against …
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pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We … persistent impact on the gender earnings gap, reducing female earnings by 55 per cent, on average, in the 5 years following … only slightly but remains high in the 10 years following the arrival of children. We attribute the gap in earnings to lower …
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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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pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that … effect is primarily due to lower earnings within broadly defined education and occupation groups. We then explore mechanisms …
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