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We study the impact of selection bias on the gender pay gap, focusing on post 1981 period. Previous work on this …, we find that, after adjusting for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender wage gaps …, substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the selectivity-corrected gaps were 0.242 log points (raw gap) and 0 …
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The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven … the gender income gap by redistributing between men and women. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels … research investigates the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender gap in income in Ireland. Using nowcasting techniques …
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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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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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differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over …, overeducation does not matter for the gender pay gap. By contrast, women's fewer years of required education reasonably do … German graduates is rather shaped by an employment behaviour suiting traditional gender roles and assigned gender stereotypes …
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Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of … preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those two sources of gender heterogeneity account for a quarter of the "explained …
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-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender wage gap and selection into management occupations … experiences, our results leave less room for direct labor market discrimination as a driver of the gender wage gap and occupation …
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This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and …). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the wage distribution, from 0.64 log points to 0.54 log points …. Endowment differences explain between 22 percent and 61 percent of the observed gender wage gap, with the explained proportion …
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those in the private sector. Gender wage gap in Indonesia is mainly due to gender discrimination. An act to equalize …
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plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …
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