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What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …
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demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our … view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women …
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male- and female-dominated industries and education levels on gender inequality in five developed countries- the United … gender wage gap? (2) Is there a cross-country variation in the relationship between education levels and the gender wage gap …? (3) Is there an impact of education levels on the gender employment gap? As for empirical analysis, for the first two …
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based on their level of education, is the mechanism underlying the growing inequality. Results suggest that the increase in … support to the proposition that selectivity of couples into the different types of division of paid work, based on education …
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We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...
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relevance to both the institutional framework and our applied gender focus. We find that when nations exhibit features in line … terms compared to "liberal market economies." The results add valuable insight to the limited gender literature within the …
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amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …
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This study examines how and to what extent a couple’s education is associated with married women’s employment and the … less educated women, except in Germany, Korea, and Japan. The social capital and gender-egalitarian perspectives hold for … among husband high - wife high education couples. …
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Studies of work/family arrangements over time and space typically analyse families by the extent to which they follow a 'male-breadwinner' versus a 'dual-breadwinner' model. Yet, this analytical framework overlooks an alternative set of labour-market arrangements that is becoming increasingly...
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production regimes and work and family reconciliation policies on the gender employment gap simultaneously in 15 Organization for … lesser degree of gender gap in employment participation and leave generosity has a curvilinear relation with the gender … employment gap. Whereas the coordinated market economies themselves are associated with smaller gender gaps in employment …
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