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Comparing Apples with Oranges : Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Plasman, Robert; Sissoko, Salimata - 2004

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution...

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Movin' on up: Hierarchical occupational segmentation and gender wage gaps

Shatnawi, Dina; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 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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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis

Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006

Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...

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The baby boom and World War II: a macroeconomic analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D. - 2007

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War … II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S. data. …

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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall...

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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...

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Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment

Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2011

Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits the random assignment mechanism in place between...

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Remember when it rained: The elusiveness of gender discrimination in Indian school enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

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The career costs of children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2011

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? : Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

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