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This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences …, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to … heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings penalties of 9% in comparison to heterosexual men, and bisexual women faced …
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explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women … data, we show that competitiveness is a significant predictor of earnings. Differences in competitiveness can account for a … significant portion of the gay earnings penalty, but cannot explain the lesbian premium. …
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skills rationalize a substantial proportion of the gender gap in job-based earnings. … of skills increases with experience, and the average age-skill profile closely resembles the well-established concave age-earnings … differences account for more earnings variation than detailed measures of education and experience. Third, we document a sizable …
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skills rationalize a substantial proportion of the gender gap in job-based earnings. … of skills increases with experience, and the average ageskill profile closely resembles the well-established concave age-earnings … differences account for more earnings variation than detailed measures of education and experience. Third, we document a sizable …
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We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that … effect is primarily due to lower earnings within broadly defined education and occupation groups. We then explore mechanisms …
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difference. This raises the question of why the gender gap did not disappear when the importance of physical strength waned with … characteristics explain much, but not all, of this gender gap. To explain the remainder of the gap, we examine training and … firms explains the gender gap. We also find differences across firms by size and location. Smaller firms outside the major …
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degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …
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differing rewards across gender that cannot be explained with productivity. We investigate if personality traits affect the … likelihood of making it to the top income quintile within an occupation differently by gender using UK Household Longitudinal … gender norms for wages. Further, female legislators and senior officials who are conscientious, extraverted, neurotic and …
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Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian …
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of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
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