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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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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...
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-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender …
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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
This Paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection … employment rates in the UK are often low they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage differentials. Thus …
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part attributable to differences in the estimated coefficients. The method is applied to a decomposition of the gender wage …
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than...
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This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from … productivity differentials between the two genders. There is thus a largely unexplained residual in the gender job allocation …
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stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We estimate separate wage equations for Danes … and a number of immigrant groups correcting for sample selection and individual specific effects. Based on a Danish panel … of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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