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available for retirement. This note reveals a large gender wealth gap in Canada among singles near retirement. Using a repeated …The gender pay gap not only affects women's financial security during their working lives but also their wealth … estimated gap rises to $96,000 or 27% after accounting for gender differences in demographic characteristics. There is no …
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' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following … proportion of women hired at high-wage firms, or sorting - and pay-setting policies - due to differences in pay by gender within …
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's average. Unlike other studies, controls for work experience and job-related responsibilities are used. Gender differences in … full-year, full-time work experience explain at most, 12% of the gender wage gap. Gender differences in the opportunity to … supervise and to perform certain tasks account for about 5% of the gender wage gap. Yet despite the long list of productivity …
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returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …
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returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap …
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Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among … different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time … use in unpaid care and home activities and to investigate the main drivers of gender gaps in Colombia using the National …
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Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field...
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …
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Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies …. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the …
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