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state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico …
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find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures … and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap. Since it is likely that labor market … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …
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We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …
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This study uses comparable data on 470 detailed occupations from the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses to analyze trends in occupational segregation in the United States in the 1980s and compare them in detail to the 1970s experience of declining segregation. We find that the trend towards reduced...
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This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany …
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Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors, particularly … gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female workers … (i.e., labor market discrimination). This paper explores the determinants of the gender pay gap and argues for the …
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1987 and Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1971 and 1988 to analyze how this dramatic decline in the gender gap was …. These 'gender-specific' factors were more than sufficient to counterbalance changes in both measured and unmeasured prices … observed relative changes in the gender gap among skill groups, specifically a faster closing of the gap at the bottom of the …
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This paper uses micro-data to analyze international differences in the gender pay gap among a sample of ten … industrialized countries. Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors …, particularly gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female …
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