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Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …
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firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education … graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and …
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We exploit an institutional reduction in the costs of acquiring advanced high school Mathematics to assess the causes and consequences of fewer girls choosing advanced Mathematics. Girls at the top and boys at the middle of the Mathematics-ability-distribution took more Mathematics because of...
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We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed, distinguishing between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups due to different levels of control … of education and non-random selection. Results indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity …
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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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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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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From the perspective of the Chicago school, there is no behaviour that is not interpretable as economic. In this paper, we discuss the assertion in the perspective of an optimal constitution and exploitation of Human Capital, through our conceptual framework named Emotional Capital (EC)....
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This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … study stream at the higher-secondary level of education. A household fixed effects regression shows that girls are 20 …
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