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Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have been found to exhibit greater masculinization of sexually dimorphic attributes relative to those...
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This paper explores gender differences in the career paths of immigrant and native parents before and after childbirth … using Spanish administrative data and an event study specification. I find an important gender pay gap emerging after … native-immigrant differences in potential drivers behind the gender pay gap. After childbirth, mothers reduce their labor …
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A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …
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system to estimate the gender gap in hourly pay for the population of medical specialists employed in the New Zealand public … limit the opportunities for a gender pay gap to arise. Nevertheless, we find that in their public health system employment … each week, and for parents. Controlling for gender differences in experience at the same age decreases the estimated gender …
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' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following … proportion of women hired at high-wage firms, or sorting – and pay-setting policies – due to differences in pay by gender within …
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rates (at over 80%), the unconditional gender gap in log hourly wages has increased by a half, while that in log of net and … tended to reduce (not to increase) the gender wage gap: in fact, women have benefited both of changes in the degree of wage …
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Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …
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This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this …
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' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following … proportion of women hired at high-wage firms, or sorting - and pay-setting policies - due to differences in pay by gender within …
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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