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We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that …
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This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance …-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP … gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job …
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-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male part-timers, female full-timers and female part-timers) is considered, and … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking … either males or females. There remains, moreover, a substantial residual gender effect between male and female employees …
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The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …
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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...
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This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
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We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...
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is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …
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share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …
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