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The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women

Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 2008

This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important explanation for the Mexican-white wage...

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The role of sex segregation in the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany

Ransmayr, Juliane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2022

considered, we confirm the very strong negative association between female presence in a subject or occupation and wages. However …, no consistent pattern emerges with regard to whether menâ€™s or womenâ€™s wages suffer larger penalties. There is also no …

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A Spatial Analysis of Precariousness and the Gender Wage Gap in Mexico, 2005–2018

Andrés-Rosales, Roldán; Czarnecki, Lukasz; … - 2023

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico, and the USA (1994–2018) has led to a reorganization of the productive structure of Mexico’s 32 metropolitan areas, affecting what jobs are offered in the country’s regions. This includes tertiary activity, which...

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Changing Levels or Changing Slopes? The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999

Weinberger, Catherine J. - 2010

Once educational attainment and other observable characteristics have been controlled for, studies show that the gender wage gap among adult full-time workers is about half the size it was in 1980. Using U.S. Census and Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1959 through 1999, the authors...

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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …

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Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter : Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Ferrall, Christopher - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to … the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are …

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The Earnings Effects of Sexual Orientation

Black, Dan; Makar, Hoda R.; Sanders, Seth G.; Taylor, … - 2021

This investigation of the effect of sexual orientation on earnings employs General Social Survey data from 1989-96. Depending largely on the definition of sexual orientation used, earnings are estimated as having been between 14% and 16% lower for gay men than for heterosexual men, and between...

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Individual Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Job : What Consequences about Wage Diffences in France?

Ben Halima, Mohamed Ali - 2010

a productivity norm. The equilibrium properties of the model show that wages differences between temporary jobs and …

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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers

Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas - 2021

separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize …

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