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Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both … within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, Israel's gender wage gap remains one of the highest … among developed countries, despite a growing reverse gender gap in educational attainment. Investigating the gender wage gap …
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Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both … within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, Israel's gender wage gap remains one of the highest … among developed countries, despite a growing reverse gender gap in educational attainment. Investigating the gender wage gap …
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In this paper, we explore the role of firm segregation on the gender wage gap. Using linked employee-employer data for … gender wage gap across the wage distribution. We find that there is a 'glass ceiling' effect in the Turkish labour market …
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This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …
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characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To … between-firm (sorting) and within-firm heterogeneity (bargaining) on the gender wage gap. We use a two-way fixed effect wage … model, in which firm fixed effects differ between male and female employees to account for within-firm gender differences in …
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …
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gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …
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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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