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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human … discrimination. …
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This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …
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This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416933
In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that … gender wage gap declined in the majority of the European countries. Similar to the U.S. experience, a part of this decline is …, the changes in returns to brain and brawn skills had a widening effect on the gender wage gap in Southern European …
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The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased …. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its unexplained component) was particularly high in the upper part …
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The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in … preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession - women make up almost all of the primary … administrative roles. To what extent is this gender structure in teaching a response to economic incentives from the labour market …
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The gender wage gap and the gender work gap are sizable, persistent and well documented for many countries. The result … of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and women. A small literature has begun to … examine how the tax-benefit system contributes to closing gender income gaps by redistributing between men and women. In this …
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and per capita GDP or gender norms, while the contribution of other factors to the gender gap in earnings diminishes with …We assess whether motherhood could be the last hurdle to achieving gender equality in developing countries by exploring … the link between motherhood and the overall gender gap in the labor market for 14 Latin American countries over the last …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human … discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146506
This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...
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