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In this paper we analyze eight years of employment data of a regional grocery store chain in the U.S. The data include job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments, and mobility into supervisory and management positions...
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suggest that labor market variables outweighed academic variables in their contribution to the gender salary gap. Of the … academic variables, gender differences in total credits accounted for more of the salary gap than did gender differences in … majors, grades, or institution attended. Of the labor market variables, gender differences in job sector, industry, and hours …
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We report evidence of gender discrimination by contestants in the One Bid game on The Price Is Right television show … exogenous with respect to gender and there are high stakes for playing impartially, yet our analysis of over 5,000 One Bid … rounds shows that for last bidders of both genders, same-gender opponents are less likely to be cut offs . For rounds in …
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ethnic and gender groups. Identify the determinants of wages and the factors that affect the wage differential. Analyze the … determinants of wages across the conditional wage distribution. Disaggregate the ethnic or gender wage disparities where observed … quantiles estimated. However, there is gender disparity in wage rates in Sri Lanka. The magnitude of this disparity varies …
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differences in pay and productivity between male and female veterinarians in the wage-salary sector. The gender gap in average … gender differences in earnings but not in productivity are consistent with the presence of wage discrimination, but the …
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Once educational attainment and other observable characteristics have been controlled for, studies show that the gender … work experience, account for only about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years, and that …
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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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Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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