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Ethnic Minorities Rewarded : Ethnostratification on the Wage Market in Belgium
Vertommen, Sara; Martens, Albert - 2007
Several previous researches have confirmed the hypothesis of ethnostratification, which holds that the labour market is … divided into different ethnic layers. While people of a European origin are over-represented in the top layers (the primary … working conditions and greater job insecurity. This paper deals with a very important condition of work: the wage. Does origin …
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Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap
Fraga, Eduardo - 2017
This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years of professional life. We use longitudinal data with 16 years of the early career history of formal sector workers in Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved...
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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021
We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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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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Gender inequality in the labor market : continuing progress?
Blau, Francine D. - 2024
This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or...
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Gender Inequality in the Labor Market : Continuing Progress?
Blau, Francine D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015171669
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The Effect of Salary History Bans on Wages, Learning, and the Gender Pay Gap
Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2021
A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages themselves are both necessary to motivate optimal...
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Selection on ability and the early career growth in the gender wage gap
Fraga, Eduardo; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2017
This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years of professional life. We use longitudinal data with 16 years of the early career history of formal sector workers in Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664412
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Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa
Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano M. - 1998
Few countries have higher wage inequality than South Africa, where wages of African and white workers differ by a factor of five. Using survey data collected in 1993, the authors analyze the complex effect of unions on this wage gap. Among male African workers in the bottom decile of the wage...
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Gender Pay Gap, Labor Unions and Firm Performance
Dugardin, Fabien-Antoine - 2020
Using detailed employee-employer administrative data, we analyze the impact of the gender pay gap on the performance of firms and find that it depends on the presence of labor unions. When the firm is not unionized, the gender pay gap reduces profitability. In contrast, when unions are present,...
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