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This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292738
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage … data restrictions have the biggest impact on the resulting gender wage gap. Moreover, we are able to show what effect a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292752
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294503
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294546
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331949
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749608
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749611
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725391
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage … data restrictions have the biggest impact on the resulting gender wage gap. Moreover, we are able to show what effect a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726798
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. -- gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726803