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Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …
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The paper aims to identify the effect of non-standard employment on wages in the Turkish labour market across gender … positions. Also, a big part of the gender pay gap is attributable to returns, especially at the lower end of the distribution … flexibilisation should take gender perspective into account. …
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates …
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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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The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized … and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical …
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-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found in Smith and Welch (1989). I conclude that most of the increase in the gender wage gap occurred …In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified … decomposition methodologies; the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991) decomposition, and a methodology that totally differences the Oaxaca …
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