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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
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skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender … evidence of workplace discrimination against women. …
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This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market. Using an equilibrium structural model …, aggregate effects on gender and participation gaps are negligible. However, female are more negatively affected by labor market … effects along the skill distribution: gender gaps are increased at the bottom of the distribution and reduced at the top …
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The gender wage gap is a well-established finding that has been observed in a range of different societies. This paper … examined the sources and composition of the gender wage gap in a New Zealand birth cohort of 30 year-olds. Prior to adjustment … endowments, job characteristics and family responsibilities, there remained an unexplained gender wage gap of 11.5 per cent …
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Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644621
. In other words, ethnicity has a direct impact on girls' school enrollment but not on boys'. There exists a gender gap … among ethnic Turkish children as well as ethnic Arabic and Kurdish children. However, the gender gap among ethnic Kurdish …
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