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Gender wage gap : a semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction

Picchio, Matteo; Mussida, Chiara - 2010

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of densities in the presence of covariates which...

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Wages and immigrant occupational composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant...

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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners : a direct test of taste discrimination

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I test some predictions of Gary Becker’s theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by employers, co-workers and customers. I combine a 2% sample of the German working population and a 50% sample of German plants with low-level regional data, including the vote...

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Glass ceilings or glass doors? : wage disparity within and between firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is …-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We … disparity they face. -- Glass ceilings ; wage differentials ; immigration ; visible minorities ; quantile regression ; linked …

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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country

Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009

This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece is examined due to the fact that it is an EU...

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Regressão quantílica com correção para a seletividade amostral : estimativa dos retornos educacionais e diferenciais raciais na distribuição de salários das mulheres no Brasil...

Coelho, Danilo; Veszteg, Róbert; Soares, Fabio Veras - 2010

We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...

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Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...

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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany : what role does firm size play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...

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The trend over time of the gender wage gap in Italy

Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - 2011

We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of flexible and atypical contracts; the female employment rates and educational levels have substantially...

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? : A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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