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Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad. Investment in the shape of remittance further builds human capital, financial capital, and the social capital. The aim of this study is to analyze the trend of Bangladeshi...
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The perception of women's statutory place within organizations has been influenced by gender bias, which has led to … discrimination. Lowering barriers related to gender inequality and introducing constructive changes takes a surprisingly long time …. A deeper understanding of the interplay between socio-economic factors and gender inequality within organizations can …
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This article reports the results of a replication of Bobbitt-Zeher’s 2007 article “The Gender Income Gap and the Role … of Education”. Models that emulate the original specifications (by and large) reproduce the original results. However …Dieser Beitrag berichtet die Ergebnisse einer Replikation von Bobbitt-Zehers 2007 erschienenem Aufsatz „The Gender …
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This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...
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Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by …
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A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that … contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women’s traditional role in the household. Child … a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers in the …
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This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to … the ranking in the gender pay gap, where Germany has also the highest gender difference. The authors also investigate …
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gender pay gap. However, there are also large differences in earnings between men and women within occupations. These … profession-specific gender pay gaps are smaller in professions with a high proportion of employees in the public sector. This … finding indicates that more transparency with respect to earnings could reduce the gender pay gap in the private economy. …
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differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …. The finding for intermarried female households is reversed, and gender-based specialization increases, when controls for … human capital are introduced. The role of immigrant education for both intermarried men and women is underscored …
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the factors that determine the gender pension gap in Europe. In … risk factors that determine the gender pension in Europe, we use EU-SILC and LFS data from Eurostat. For our analysis we … the gender pension gap. Women working part time, and gender differences in working life duration, were found to be the two …
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