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The current paper investigates whether rising inequality and changes in returns to skills can explain the pattern of wage convergence over the 1980s in Australia or whether other explanations for the observed 'slow down'in female relative wage progress should be sought.
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In this paper, we model the interactions between the distribution of male and female wages under the assumption that … any change in the wage distribution of women must be offset by an opposite change in the wage distribution of men. …
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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 are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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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 are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various sub-sections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …
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, for France, the effects children have on women?s professional life and proposes a measure of their impact on wages of … women and men in their forties. Having children does not seem to have a direct influence on women?s hourly wages, but … age group, the wages of women continuously active and men; here, the wage gap remains mostly unexplained by differences in …
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In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark … or register data, we find that all women are affectee by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani … women experience a double-negative effect. …
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Despite some reductions in the male-female pay gap in the post-war period, gender differentials seem to persist in all industrial countries. This is also the case in the Scandinavian countries where the wage dispersion hase been compressed as a consequence of a "solidaric wage policy".
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period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have …'s relative wage gains, as compared to 1974. At this time, women gained in relative wages mainly because discrimination was … had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage differentials have systematically worked against women, while …
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