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Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations

Filippin, Antonio; Ichino, Andrea - 2003

This paper explores the extent to which the gender wage gap is anticipated by workers' expectations. Data collected … among second year students of Bocconi University convey information about their wage expectations. Detailed controls allow a … the gender gap implied by students' expectations one year after graduation is consistent with the gender gap implied by …

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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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Gender wage gap in Estonia : a non-parametric decomposition

Anspal, Sten - In: Baltic journal of economics 15 (2015) 1, pp. 1-16

Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by occupation and industry. Previous studies have found that most of the gap remains unexplained by personal and job characteristics. However, key job characteristics, occupation and...

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The role of sex segregation in the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany

Ransmayr, Juliane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 37-81

In this paper we examine the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany from 1997 to 2013 based on the DZHW (the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies) Absolventenpanel. We focus in particular on the effect of female presence in a subject or occupation on...

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The role of sex segregation in the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany

Ransmayr, Juliane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2022

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Gender wage gap in Estonia: a non-parametric decomposition

Anspal, Sten - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 15 (2015) 1, pp. 1-16

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868494

The role of sex segregation in the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany

Ransmayr, Juliane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278346

A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

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Gender gaps across the earnings distribution in Britain: are women bossy enough?

Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2009

This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...

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Disability and skill mismatch

Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...

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