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An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125907
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665761
Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an African country at birth. For that...
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In this paper we use two alternative approaches to study the extent of gender wage discrimination in Portugal. Both … evidence in favour of the existence of gender wage discrimination in Portugal. However, the extent of labour market … discrimination decreases when sample selection bias corrections are taken into account. …
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