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an entirely female occupation entails a loss in individual earnings of twelve percent in Britain, six percent in … disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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an entirely female occupation entails a loss in individual earnings of twelve percent in Britain, six percent in … disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over …- (O), required (R), and undereducation (U). As ORU earnings estimations based on German SOEP cross-section and panel data …, overeducation does not matter for the gender pay gap. By contrast, women' fewer years of required education reasonably do, answering …
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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
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newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first …
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Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...
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Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed …. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women's and men's earnings using … the first child to be -10500€ for women and +6800€ for men. When comparing the percentage loss of potential earnings, I …
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