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Gender earning gaps around the world: a study of 64 countries

Ñopo, Hugo; Daza, Nancy; Ramos, Johanna - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) 5, pp. 464-513

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 … are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the … same observable characteristics. Findings – Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio …

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Sample Selection in a Model of Female Labour Supply: An Alternative Approach

Kidd, Michael P. - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 1, pp. 11-21

Suggests an alternative and computationally simpler approach of on‐random sampling of labour economics and represents an observed outcome of an individual female′s choice of whether or not to participate in the labour market. Concludes that there is an alternative to the Heckman two‐step...

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Work Loyalty and Individualism in the United States and Canada

Ali, Abbas J.; Azim, Ahmed; Falcone, Thomas W. - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 6, pp. 58-66

Addresses the relationship between work loyalty and individualism in the USA and Canada in a study of 434 subjects from various organizations which participated. Results indicate that national identity has a minimal influence on individualism and work loyalty. Sex, however, influenced both...

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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in France Revisited

Benhayoun, Gilbert - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 82-85

Recent studies of the French experience find a small, negative impact of the minimum wage on young persons′ employment, a finding which has led to a political debate over the role of sub‐minimum wage rates for youths. The current study initially aimed simply to update previous work. However,...

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The Economics of Low Pay in Britain

Sloane, P.J.; Theodossiou, I. - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 130-149

employer‐employee sample. Gender is the most important variable but women, as men, can improve their relative positions by …

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Earnings Transitions of the Low‐paid in Britain, 1976‐91: A Longitudinal Study

Gregory, Mary; Elias, Peter - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 170-188

Using a large panel of employees from the New Earnings Survey, examines the subsequent earnings transitions of those who were in the lowest quintile of the earnings distribution in 1976. Traces the quintile earnings positions in 1984 and 1991 of three age groups of 1976 – the young, the...

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Pay and Employment Equity in the United States and Canada

Gunderson, Morley - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 7, pp. 26-43

Pay and employment equity initiatives clearly have been important policies in Canada and the United States. While the policies appear to have had some positive effects for some members of the target groups for which they are to apply, large gaps still remain in the pay and employment...

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Employment gaps and work and career satisfactions of managerial and professional women

Burke, Ronald J.; McKeen, Carol A. - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 1, pp. 47-55

Examines the relationship of employment gaps to measures of work outcomes and emotional wellbeing. Data were collected from a diverse sample of 792 managerial and professional women using questionnaires completed anonymously. Managerial women with more employment gaps were older, more likely...

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Effects of age on attitudes towards working women

Misra, Ranjita; Panigrahi, Bhagaban - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 2, pp. 3-17

suffer by her working. In addition to age and gender, the factors influencing attitude are income, education, religious …

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Gender wage differentials and discrimination among Israeli managers

Neuman, Shoshana; Weisberg, Jacob - In: International Journal of Manpower 19 (1998) 3, pp. 161-170

The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage differentials and wage discrimination among 9,035 male and female Israeli managers. In our sample, female managers earn on average 64 per cent of their male counterparts. Using a statistical method originally developed by Ronald Oaxaca, we found...

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