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Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation : the Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary returns of one additional year of education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2016
non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507219
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017
outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635687
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Optimal Family Taxation and Income Inequality
Apps, Patricia F. - 2017
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear income tax systems for families based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between the wage rates of mothers as "second earners" and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963963
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Globalization and Wage Inequality in South and East Asia, and Latin America : A Gender Approach
Camps, Enriqueta; Camou, Maria Magdalena; Mora-Sitja, … - 2006
In this paper we analyse the reasons behind the evolution of the gender gap and wage inequality in South and East Asian and Latin American countries during the decades 1970-2000. Health human capital improvements, the exposure to free market openness and equal treatment enforcement laws seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054321
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings, labor market participation, working hours and wage rate, while fathers … babysit, which generate motherhood earnings penalty in labor market. Finally, well-being analysis shows that subjective …
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The last hurdle? : unyielding motherhood effects in the context of declining gender inequality in Latin America
Marchionni, Mariana; Pedrazzi, Julián - 2023
’ earnings. This result is explained by a reduction in employment and a prompting shift towards occupations that favor more … and per capita GDP or gender norms, while the contribution of other factors to the gender gap in earnings diminishes with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468158
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism : Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2021
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321012