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A European Analysis of Changes in Gender Specific Wage Inequality Using Decomposition Methods

Behr, Andreas - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 1, pp. 50-73

used throughout is the User Data Base (UDB) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The decomposition analysis is … components to isolate the forces underlying the wage change. While the decomposition method is in the spirit of the well known … Oaxaca decomposition (1973), in the approach of Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce the residual of Mincerian-earnings equations is …

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Private Returns to Tertiary Education - How Does New Zealand Compare to the OECD?

Zuccollo, James; Maani, Sholeh; Kaye-Blake, Bill; Zeng, Lulu - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2013

issues with the OECD standardisation. We develop a decomposition approach and provide a series of decompositions of the New …

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Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2010

This paper uses matched employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in wage inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that the entry and exit of firms and the sorting of workers and...

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Part-time wage penalties in Europe: A matter of selection or segregation?

Matteazzi, Eleonora; Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Different profiles of female participation and part-time employment can be observed within Europe. The aim of this paper is to estimate whether there still exists a wage penalty for part-time workers in four European countries (i.e. Austria, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom) after the...

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK

Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage gap increases over the life cycle, especially between...

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The distribution of the gender wage gap : an equilibrium model

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel; Wang, Fan - 2022

We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data...

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Gender wage discrimination by distribution of income in Mexico, 2005-2020

Mendoza González, Miguel Ángel - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 29 (2020), pp. 1-20

This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this end, a number of variables is selected to reflect workers' human capital, household circumstances and workplace characteristics; then, a novel non-parametric method decomposes...

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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020

characteristics of the individual's partner. In an empirical application, we find that this extended decomposition explains … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …

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The gender wage gap in Europe : job preferences, gender convergence and distributional effects

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2017

to age, tenure and previous employment status. A quantile decomposition reveals that job preferences play a greater role …

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