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Using a matching decomposition to examine the gender technology gap in Tanzanian agriculture

Scholz, Johanna; Abdulai, Awudu - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 2, pp. 155-169

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Bhalotra, Sonia; Fernández, Manuel - 2018

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 distribution of the gender wage gap : an equilibrium model

Bhalotra, Sonia; Fernández, Manuel; Wang, Fan - 2022

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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The distribution of the gender wage gap

Bhalotra, Sonia; Fernández, Manuel - 2018

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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015

disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : an extended structural model for policy evaluations

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...

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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : [an extended structural model for policy evaluations]

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and hours constraints ; conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014

This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

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What happened to real earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?

Cichello, Paul L.; Abou-Ali, Hala; Marotta, Daniela - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-38

men; (iii) those who were initially in agriculture also had greater declines despite rising food prices. …

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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?

Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002

The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...

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