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It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for … men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between … education, experience, its square and wages defined by firm size and industry at the micro level across industrial firms and …
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continue her/his education. To substantiate the gender bias, the probability of falling ill among the girl children is found to … earning jobs they are shown as helpers. Parents' income as such may not be having a positive impact on child's education …
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: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for … men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between … education, experience, its square and wages defined by firm size and industry at the micro level across industrial firms and …
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the gender wage gap in France, with special attention to its impact on the accumulation and composition of human capital … mean. Then for a sub-sample of men and women aged from 39 to 49, we use a decomposition of the gender wage gap into an … "interruption" wage gap between women and a gender wage gap between women who have never taken child-related time out and men; we …
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and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
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associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps …
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examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart … incurs a wage penalty. Contrary to the prevailing idea in economics, differences in productivity - human capital, job …
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, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …
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smaller economic returns, such as education and humanities degrees, especially for men. …
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