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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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Earning differentials by occupational categories : gender, race and regions
Arraes, Ronaldo de Albuquerque e; Menezes, Francisca … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 3, pp. 363-386
Analyzing the income differentials amongst the Brazilian workers' occupations is the focus of this paper. Due to the wide diversity of occupations cataloged by the IBGE (around 800), a theoretical procedure is applied to reduce them to only seven in order to allow statistical treatment of the...
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The Gap that Survived the Transition : The Gender Wage Gap Over Three Decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and the labour force survey micro data is employed from 1989 to 2020. The …
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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … defined by the Gini index varies from 1% to 4% depending on the geographical administrative divisions used. Race tends to … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …
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'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1998
of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
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Remedying 'Unfair Acts' : U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender
Lapidus, June; Figart, Deborah M. - 1999
of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
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U.S. long-term earnings outcomes by sex, race, ethnicity, and place of birth
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M.; Janicki, Hubert P. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1879-1945
This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...
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Importing equality or exporting jobs? : Competition and gender wage and employment differentials in US manufacturing
Kongar, Ebru (contributor) - 2006
This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in U.S. manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993. Increased import competition is expected to decrease the relative demand for workers in low-wage production occupations and the...
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Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs? Competition and Gender Wage and Employment Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing
Kongar, Ebru - 2006
This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in U.S. manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993. Increased import competition is expected to decrease the relative demand for workers in low-wage production occupations and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734635