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Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe
Perugini, Cristiano; Selezneva, Ekaterina - 2013
market institutions in forming this variety. Labour market deregulation increases gender inequality, particularly reinforcing … again in the better-paid jobs. Lastly, the crisis seems to further weaken the already poor role of institutions in the low …
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Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe
Perugini, Cristiano; Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2013
market institutions in forming this variety. Labour market deregulation increases gender inequality, particularly reinforcing … again in the better-paid jobs. Lastly, the crisis seems to further weaken the already poor role of institutions in the low …-pay sector. -- earnings gender gap ; institutions ; quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717643
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Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000
A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297712
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The changing gender gap across the wage distribution in the UK
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2001
This paper contributes descriptive evidence on the development of the gender wage gap for different skill groups and full- and part-time employees in the U.K. The empirical analysis is based upon the General Household Survey from 1975 to 1995 and therefore provides evidence on an exceptionally...
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Beyond the mean gender wage gap: Decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression
Heinze, Anja - 2010
Using linked employer-employee data, this study measures and decomposes the differences in the earnings distribution between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human capital characteristics and the effect of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300515
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Intangibles and the gender wage gap: An analysis of gender wage gaps across occupations in the Finnish private sector
Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - 2011
The paper compares the gender wage differentials of two occupation groups - innovation and non-innovation workers - separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on unconditional quantile regression techniques to identify key...
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Intangible capital and wages: An analysis of wage gaps across occupations and genders in Czech Republic, Finland and Norway
Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - 2011
This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, we explore the wage differentials and the...
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From the bottom to the top: A more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain
Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...
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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim; Özdemir, Abidin - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060216
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Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912723