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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Gender wage gap"”.
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Occupational Skills and Gender Wage Gap
… of three essays studying the occupational wages, skills, and gender wage gap in U.S. and other OECD countries. The analysis especially focuses on how the gender differences in skill levels and skill returns could explain the gender wage gaps and changes. The first chapter outlines the …
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The gender wage gap in developing and transition countries
The aim of my dissertation is to study the gender wage gap with a specific focus on developing and transition countries. In the first chapter I present the main existing theories proposed to analyse the gender wage gap and I review the empirical literature on the gender wage gap in developing and …
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Analysis of gender wage gap using mixed effects models
Despite government interventions, the gender wage gap persists in workplaces. While reports on whether the gap is widening or narrowing vary, addressing this issue remains crucial. Traditionally, researchers have employed methods like the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and quantile regression to …
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Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Rural and Urban China
<p>The gender wage gap is a long-standing and worldwide issue. Since the equality sense towards gender role are difference between rural and urban China, this paper will (1) compare the gender wage gap in rural and urban settings; (2) examine how the associated factors (such as education, …
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Effects Of Paid Maternity Leave On The Gender Wage Gap
<p>The persistence of the gender wage gap in countries throughout the world has sparked several theories as to its cause and possible solutions. One theory centers on the decisions faced by a woman regarding children and fertility throughout her career. Typically, as the primary caregivers for …
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Gender inequality in the labour market is real and it matters. This thesis examines gender wage inequality in the post-apartheid South African labour market from 1993 to 2015 and finds that there is a substantial median wage gap of between 35% and 23% since the end of apartheid. This gap is …
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Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach
… chapter provides a descriptive analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression. Many studies have examined the gender wage gap in the United States but this is the first to provide systematic analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression over time. Using data from both the …
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ESTIMATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA
… assesses the causes and consequences of gender wage discrimination in Ethiopia. In the first chapter, we estimate the distribution of Gender Wage Discrimination in the Ethiopian urban labor market using quantile counterfactual decompositions. The literature generally finds a u-shaped …
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Essays on Noncognitive Skills
… examine the effect of noncognitive skills on the gender wage gap during mid- and late- adulthood. In the first chapter I propose a novel mechanism through which mothers produce high quality (skilled) children by focusing on maternal life satisfaction, which I interpret as maternal happiness. The …
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Wage inequality and the role of pre-market skills
… of pre-market skills to examine an aspect of wage inequality in the U.S. labor market. Chapter One analyzes the factors associated with the change in the gender wage gap for young workers. I decompose the change in the gender wage gap over the entire wage distribution into factors associated …
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An Analysis on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Effect on Women Faculty in Higher Education
… institutions have not been absolved from the gender wage gap issue, they have been one of the slowest to adapt to the growing workforce of women. This research study examined one form of persistent discrimination, the gender wage gap, and how it impacts women faculty members at higher …
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An endogenous search model and its applications
… of young children affects the reservation wage and the escape rate from unemployment of female workers, and the gender wage gap between male and female workers. By its empirical work, the thesis tries to broaden the range of application of the job search theory. The empirical results of the …
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Barriers to women’s employment and the extent of gender inequality in the labour market in Turkey
This thesis investigates gender inequalities in employment outcomes in Turkey in the context of low employment rates of women, occupational gender segregation and gender wage differentials. The first empirical chapter of the thesis sheds light on the role of traditional or conservative social norms …
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Essays in economic history and labor economics
… proposes a novel strategy to estimate the gender wage gap. The first chapter explores the short- and long-run consequences of the 1906 San Francisco Fire, one of the largest urban fires in American history. I use linked US Census records to follow San Francisco residents and their sons from …
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Wages, employment, and technological change in English cotton spinning, c.1780-1850
… attention. This thesis analyses newly digitised wage books from cotton spinning firms that used these technologies to revisit established debates on: 1. Hand-spinning wages in England and the incentives behind mechanisation; 2. The gender division of labour by spinning technology type; and, 3. …
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Income Shocks and the Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Indonesia
… expanding income opportunities, and closing the gender wage gap, can lead to positive women's empowerment outcomes. </p>
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Minimum wages as a mechanism for gender pay equity: the role of gender in predicting labour market outcomes from the minimum wage in south Africa's retail and agricultural sectors
Do minimum wages promote greater equity in pay in a developing country context? This paper seeks to answer this question through employing two difference-in-difference (DID) regression techniques to uncover the gendered impact of South Africa's Sectoral Wage Determinations (‘sectoral minimum wages' …
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Women Employment and Health
… of the 2008/9 economic crisis on the UK gender wage gap, the effects of postpartum depression on maternal employment after childbirth, and the potential long-term impacts of postpartum depression on children’s emotional health and cognitive developmental outcomes. Specifically, this …
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Occupational Stratification and the Multidimensional Structure of Symbolic Meaning
… of objective characteristics. This leaves a gap in our understanding of how inequality is generated and maintained because Weber ([1958]) theorized that status, a form of social symbolic power based on cultural beliefs, represents one of the fundamental bases of inequality. Without an …
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