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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …
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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to … second and the third. The gender wage gap remains largely unexplained after controlling for different combinations of socio … middle of the wage distributions than the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover …
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We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …
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opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …
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Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 … are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the … same observable characteristics. Findings – Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 … are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the … same observable characteristics. Findings – Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014783477
This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are … partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are … used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same …
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This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey … (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps … order to address the difficulties of comparing like with like this study uses a number of different matching techniques to …
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are … interdependencies are taken into account and matching procedures are applied, the outcome matches to that of independent and unmatched …
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