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acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential … rates by sex, whether in levels, returns to productivity, or coauthorship patterns. …
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This article reports the results of a replication of Bobbitt-Zeher’s 2007 article “The Gender Income Gap and the Role …Dieser Beitrag berichtet die Ergebnisse einer Replikation von Bobbitt-Zehers 2007 erschienenem Aufsatz „The Gender …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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The within-firm gender wage gap plays an important role in understanding the overall gender gap in the labor market …. This paper describes how parenthood is associated with the within-firm gender gap using a unique personnel dataset from a …. Our study highlights the importance of internal gender segregation in understanding gender wage differentials …
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work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and … child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a … a child, mothers have a higher likelihood for engaging in informal jobs and less possibility of being promoted if they …
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mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where …
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We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian … linked panel data. Findings highlight that educational credentials have a stronger impact on productivity than on wage costs … found to be more pronounced among younger workers and women. Findings thus suggest that the productivity to wage cost ratio …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …. This paper analyzes both gender and occupational wage gaps before and during the first years of the transition to a market …
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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition …
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