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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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The gender pay gap of 21 percent in Germany is partly due to the fact that men and women work in different occupations … across occupations. In particular, there is a substantial gender pay gap in occupations with non-linear earnings, i … positions exhibit a larger gender pay gap. Occupations at public companies tend to have smaller pay gaps. Changes in the …
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This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …
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Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … suggests that amenities are important for both men and women, that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay … gap, and that there are significant output and welfare gains from eliminating gender differences. However, equal …
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Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … important for both men and women and that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay gap. Equal …-treatment policies partly close gender gaps but are not output- or welfare-improving. …
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …
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Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of … preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those two sources of gender heterogeneity account for a quarter of the "explained …
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