Search Results - subject:"Gender wage inequality"

The firm-wage gender gap and formal sector churn over the life cycle

Bassier, Ihsaan; Gautham, Leila - 2024

We find that women sorting into lower wage firms explains nearly half of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using matched employer-employee panel data covering the universe of formal sector workers. Sorting varies considerably over the life cycle: the firm-wage gender gap is negligible for the...

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The firm-wage gender gap and formal sector churn over the life cycle

Bassier, Ihsaan; Gautham, Leila - 2024

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Skill-biased technological change and gender inequality across OECD countries : a simultaneous approach

Nogueira, Manuel Carlos; Madaleno, Mara - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 4, pp. 1-18

Of the various approaches that, over the last few decades, have sought explanations for the constant increase in the wage gap between more and less skilled workers, the Skill-Biased Technological Change (SBTC) approach has been the most used and the one that has led to the most consistent...

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New evidence about skill-biased technological change and gender wage inequality

Nogueira, Manuel Carlos; Madaleno, Mara - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 7, pp. 1-22

made and that a slow reduction in gender wage inequality is observed in all clusters. …

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Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality

Azmat, Ghazala; Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2020

Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...

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Workplace presenteeism, job substitutability and gender inequality

Azmat, Ghazala; Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2020

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Economic Reforms and Gender-based Wage Inequality in the Presence of Factor Market Distortions

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Roychowdhury, Somasree - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and...

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Why and how does gender wage inequality persist?: perceptions of stakeholders in the Australian industrial relations system

Short, Christine - 2006

This thesis explores how and why gender wage inequality persisted in Australia during the period 1990 to 2003. A review …Interviewees felt that the persistence of gender wage inequality was a complex artifact. An artifact of economic … also act to create persistent gender wage inequality. As much as action is taken in the legal and political arena to create …

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