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The increase of the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis

Piazzalunga, Daniela; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura - 2016

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its...

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Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Button, Patrick - 2019

. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …

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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries

Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - 2017

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing countries using a unique, household-survey based...

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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?

Dauth, Christine - 2016

for these groups suggest that family-related preferences, employer discrimination, and institutional settings matter for …

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Uncovering the gender participation gap in the crime market

Gavrilova, Evelina; Campaniello, Nadia - 2015

Using data from the U.S. National Incident Based Reporting System we document a gender gap in the number of crimes committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker's model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for...

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Male-female labor market participation and the extent of gender-based wage discrimination in Turkey

Günalp, Burak; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Acar, Elif Öznur - 2015

differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …. This differential has been attributed to labor market discrimination against women. Using data from 2003 and 2010 Household … measures the extent of pay discrimination in Turkey. To analyze the components of the earnings gap, two methodologies are …

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Parental leave and the glass ceiling in Sweden

Albrecht, James W.; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter; Vroman, … - 2015

In this paper, we update and extend "Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?" (Albrecht et al. 2003) by documenting the extent to which the gender log wage gap across the distribution in Sweden has changed over the period 1998-2008. We then examine the Swedish glass ceiling in 2008 in more detail by...

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Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has widened over time and we identify two factors strongly...

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Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?

Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women...

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Gender-based educational and occupational segregation in the Caribbean

Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018

This study analyzes the evolution of gender-based educational and occupational segregation, from 1999 to 2016, for four Caribbean countries (The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago). The focus is on the role of educational segregation in explaining occupational segregation. There...

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