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Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Meara, Katie - 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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Fertility, Son-Preference, and the Reversal of the Gender Gap in Literacy/Numeracy Tests

Chae, Minhee; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2023

This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … fertility would make girls more likely to live in a single-sex family, which in turn increases the share of human capital … exogenous variation in fertility due to China's family planning policy. Utilising the policy intensity information collected …

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Female Labor Market Opportunities and Gender Gaps in Aspirations

Molina, Teresa; Usui, Emiko - 2022

adolescents’ own thoughts about their future educational attainment, occupation, marriage, and fertility, as well as parental … attainment as well as later marriage and fertility – are significantly smaller in municipalities with higher female labor force …

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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

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The Gender Application Gap : Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?

Fluchtmann, Jonas; Glenny, Anita; Harmon, Nikolaj A.; … - 2022

Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish UI recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader...

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Working Hours, Promotion and the Gender Gap in the Workplace

Kato, Takao - 2017

This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...

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The Gender Wage Gap in Europe : Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects

McGuinness, Séamus - 2017

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of the...

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The Gender Pay Gap in Ireland from Austerity Through Recovery

Doorley, Karina; Privalko, Ivan; Russell, Helen; Tuda, Dora - 2021

This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to administrative information on earnings, we show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage...

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Movin' on Up : Hierarchical Occupational Segmentation and Gender Wage Gaps

Shatnawi, Dina - 2012

Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...

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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect

Matano, Alessia - 2012

In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...

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