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underestimates the explained portion of the male-female wage gap. -- experience ; specification error ; decomposition ; gender …We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318043
to separately identify the decomposition biases associated with incorrect experience measures and biased parameter …This paper models the bias from using potential vs actual experience in log wage models. The nature of the problem is … potential and actual work experience and create a predicted measure of work experience. We use the 1979 National Longitudinal …
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This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …
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We examine the gender wage gap in Austria from 2005 to 2017 using data from EU-SILC. The raw wage gap declined from 18 ….6 log points in 2005 to 14.9 log points in 2017. We use standard decomposition techniques that correct for differences in … that the unexplained part of the gender wage gap decreased substantially over the last ten years. The decrease of the …
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decomposition of the gender wage gap. The LASSO selection with a one standard error rule removes about a quarter of the regressors …. We use the LASSO-selected regressors for OLSbased gender wage decompositions. This approach results in a smaller error … variance than in OLS without LASSO-selection. The explained gender wage gap is 1%-point greater than in the conventional OLS …
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Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795553
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 …
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