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Selection on ability and the early career growth in the gender wage gap
Fraga, Eduardo; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2017
This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years … Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved ability that we use to analyze the dynamics of labor market … selection across genders as individuals age. We focus on the cohort born in 1974, for which we have a close to complete history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664412
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Gender Pay Gap, Labor Unions and Firm Performance
Dugardin, Fabien-Antoine - 2020
Using detailed employee-employer administrative data, we analyze the impact of the gender pay gap on the performance of firms and find that it depends on the presence of labor unions. When the firm is not unionized, the gender pay gap reduces profitability. In contrast, when unions are present,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844104
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Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap
Fraga, Eduardo - 2017
This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years … Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved ability that we use to analyze the dynamics of labor market … selection across genders as individuals age. We focus on the cohort born in 1974, for which we have a close to complete history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955027
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The impact of selection into the labor force on the gender wage gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021 - Preliminary draft
We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … wage gaps over the 1981-2015 period. Under our preferred method of accounting for selection, we find that the raw median …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518111
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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021
We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … wage gaps over the 1981-2015 period. Under our preferred method of accounting for selection, we find that the raw median …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225788
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Should We Mind the Gap? Gender Pay Differentials and Public Policy
Shackleton, J. R. - 2009
Differences in the earnings of women and men are increasingly being used to justify regulation of the private affairs of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212115
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Unraveling the MNE wage premium
van der Straaten, Khadija; Pisani, Niccolò; Kolk, Ans - 2020
Whereas the field of International Business has extensively studied MNEs’ generic (positive) impact on host economies, but rarely on employee wages, economics research has only shown an overall MNE wage premium. We ‘unravel’ this premium, considering multiple levels of analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091567
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Gender gaps in wages and non-monetary benefits : evidence from Ethiopia's manufacturing sector
Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; … - 2024
Using two rounds of panel firm- and worker-level data, this paper studies the gender gap in monetary and non-monetary compensation as well as work-related wellbeing among full-time workers in the agro-processing and leather sectors in Ethiopia. After controlling for year-fixed effects, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014633052
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Selection and the measured black-white wage gap among young women revisited
Albrecht, James W.; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan B. - 2014
women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … increased substantially between 1990 and 2011, as did the selection-corrected gap. These increases are explained to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252640