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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training

Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14

This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...

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Female leadership and gender gap within firms : evidence from an Italian board reform

Maida, Agata; Weber, Andrea - 2019

Over the last decade, several countries have followed the Norwegian example and introduced laws mandating gender quota … in gender quota that remain effective for three consecutive board renewals of listed limited liability firms. We link … Social Security registers. Exploiting the staggered introduction of the gender quota regulation and variation in board …

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Workplaces, Low Pay and the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Mumford, Karen - 2017

This study provides a robust assessment of the importance of a number of determinants of the gaps in earnings between the four groups of employees who make up the British workforce; males and females who work full and part-time. The analysis considers the contribution of individual employee...

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Salary History Ban : Gender Pay Gap and Spillover Effects

Sinha, Sourav - 2019

during the hiring process. We find that the bans reduce gender pay gap by 4.2% points in hourly wages, and by 4.5% points in …. While the gender pay gap closes in the private sector, public sector gaps increase, primarily because of an increase in men …

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Should We Mind the Gap? Gender Pay Differentials and Public Policy

Shackleton, J. R. - 2009

of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair …

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Wage Responses to Gender Pay Gap Reporting Requirements

Blundell, Jack - 2020

In this paper I study a policy in which employers are required to publicly report gender pay gap statistics. Proponents …’s recent reporting policy, in which employers are mandated to publicly report simple measures of their gender pay gap each year … of the gender pay gap at affected employers. This large-magnitude effect is primarily due to a decline in male wages …

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An International Map of Gender Gaps

Buono, Ines; Polselli, Annalivia - 2023

This paper revisits stylized facts on female labour force participation, employment and unemployment, using a unified and up-to-date dataset with comparable information for high-income (HI) and middle-low income (MLI) countries. We find that: (i) global trends in labour supply in the last 30...

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The Effects of Minimum Wages on Wage Inequality and Gender Pay Gap in APEC Economies

Moon, Seongman - 2020

This paper investigates the effects of an increase in minimum wages on wage inequality and gender pay gap in APEC … effective minimum wage, while controlling for macroeconomic variables that could affect wage inequality as well as gender pay … distribution. The effect is much greater for women than for men, which contributes to reducing gender pay gap. On the other hand …

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Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?

Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2021

particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …

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