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female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female …
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We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
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Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security,...
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female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566661
Portugal over a fifteen year period. We concentrate on the gender dimension, to answer the questions: have changes in … recruitment policies at the establishment level resulted in higher gender segregation in the labour market? What is the impact of … the composition of the labour force at the establishment level on wages. Results reveal a high degree of systematic gender …
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, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …
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differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The analysis shows that little none of the … gender earnings gap in both the public and private sector can be explained by differences in observable characteristics …
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discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …
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