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Tax Policy and Returns to Education
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977270
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013
selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079135
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083520
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124131
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136575
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Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98
Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this accomplishment? The theoretical literature and attendant empirical evidence are inconclusive. Using data for 2.9 million wage earners in Hungary we find that the male/female difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067679
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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968005
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The Glass Ceiling in Europe: Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?
Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971389
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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977299
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459767