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Occupational licensing and the gender wage gap

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020

We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the 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...

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Gender matters : private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs

Bjerge, Benedikte; Torm, Nina; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016

In many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand. Yet little is known about how successful such...

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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction

Hübler, Olaf - 2019

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is 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...

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The role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction

Hübler, Olaf - 2019

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Upstreamness, social upgrading and gender : equal benefits for all?

Gagliardi, Nicola; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2018

higher wages. We also enrich our analysis with a gender dimension. Unconditional quantile regressions and decomposition …

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L' union fait la force? : evidence for wage discrimination in firms with high diversity

Grinza, Elena; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2018

Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts involved metrics that eliminate most of the economically relevant distances among different countries...

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The career dynamics of high-skilled women and men : evidence from Sweden

Albrecht, Jim; Bronson, Mary Ann; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter - 2018

and men. Specifically, we track wages for up to 20 years among women and men born in the years 1960 - 70 who completed a … university degree in business or economics. These women and men have similar wages and earnings at the start of their careers … patterns in wages that we see. Men and women both exhibit greater mobility early in their careers, but there is little gender …

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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment

Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017

wages, in comparison with those displaying feminine personality traits. Furthermore, wage premiums are higher for those …

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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment

Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017

wages, in comparison with those displaying feminine personality traits. Furthermore, wage premiums are higher for those …

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The gender lifetime earnings gap : exploring gendered pay from the life course perspective

Boll, Christina; Jahn, Malte; Lagemann, Andreas - 2017

Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its …

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