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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …
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A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of … the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using …
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gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of … the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap inhours worked. Our results are robust using …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …
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In this paper we examine the linkages between involvement into global value chains (GVCs) and the gender wage … added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … lower. However, the relationship between GVC and wages differs in respect to gender; women are more affected by the negative …
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and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …
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This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the … Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …
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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 … simply being female on wages. However, to form a complete picture, one should consider that gender wages are affected by a …
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