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The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career selection where juniors value both the identity and perceived quality of...
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functions regressions. Dependent variables are logarithms of the mean sector wages considered for each case. Some statistical … reflecting good assignment of people to jobs and/or tasks - on productivity and, thus, production. …
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between occupational feminization and wages and estimate the contribution of occupational sex-segregation to the gender pay-gap. … wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More …. We examine whether lower wages in female-dominated occupations in Britain are explained by differences in specialized …
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Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...
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, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect … and women with similar noncognitive skills enter occupations at very different rates. Women, however, have lower wages on …This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so …
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, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect … and women with similar noncognitive skills enter occupations at very different rates. Women, however, have lower wages on …This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so …
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observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed countries … Australia, I find that a large portion of the gender wage-gap is found among individuals employed in the same occupational …-occupational gender wage-gap, for all countries in the sample …
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skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap …We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
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, the changes in returns to brain and brawn skills had a widening effect on the gender wage gap in Southern European …In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that … gender wage gap declined in the majority of the European countries. Similar to the U.S. experience, a part of this decline is …
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, including wages and employment. Non-cognitive skills can also serve as an additional explanation for the gender wage gap. This … paper disentangles the complex relationship between non-cognitive skills and the gender wage gap based on Russian data. Data …-cognitive skills. Our findings suggest that non-cognitive skills account for up to 8 per cent of the gender wage gap, although …
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