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Gender segregation and gender wage differences during the early labour market career

Bechara, Peggy - 2012

labour market and its development during workers' early career. The analysis contributes to the existing research on gender … career in lower-paying occupations and establishments. With progressing labour market experience, however, gender segregation …. Therefore, part of the early career wage gap remains unexplained. -- Gender wage gap ; early career ; labour market segregation …

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Time is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages

Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012

study the underlying mechanisms of the wage premium, paying particular attention to the relationship between career stage … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …

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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes : evidence from siblings

Fletcher, Jason - 2012

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...

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Multiple glass ceilings

Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2011

Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage gap grows across job levels (glass ceiling at the vertical margin) and across the deciles of the...

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Equal opportunity? : gender gaps in CEO appointments and executive pay

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2016

This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender...

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...

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The effects of school entry laws on educational attainment and starting wages in an early tracking system

Zweimüller, Martina - 2013

Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …

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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

that 71% of this effect emerges during the career. We show that this effect holds irrespective of individual abilities, and …

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The effects of school entry laws on educational attainment and starting wages in an early tracking system

Zweimüller, Martina - 2013

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Reaching high : occupational sorting and higher education wage inequality in the UK

Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren - 2012

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...

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