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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"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
… 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 unexplained by differences in human capital …
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The wage gap revisited: An investigation of salary request differences among Black-White and male-female workers
<p>This study examined wage gaps in the workforce and discussed explanations for why these gaps exist. Specifically, this study investigated the differences between men and women and Blacks and Whites in the amount of salary requested for a new job. Current worker data from an international job …
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Investigating Causal Inference of Policies: Ban the Box on Employment, Wage Transparency on Wage Gap, and DNA Databases on Serious Crimes
… of policies. Ban the Box on employment, Wage Transparency on wage gaps, and DNA databases on serious crimes. Chapter 1 - Ban the Box (BTB) policies move the inquiry about the candidate’s criminal record to later in the hiring process. The intention of this policy is to have employers …
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Investigating Causal Inference of Policies: Ban the Box on Employment, Wage Transparency on Wage Gap, and Semi-Automatic Indexing & Tagging of CMES Medical Educational Documents
… of policies: Ban the Box on employment and Wage Transparency on wage gaps. The last chapter uses natural language processing to semi-automatically create indexes for medical documents. Chapter 1 - Ban the Box (BTB) policies move the inquiry about the candidate’s criminal record to later in …
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Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach
… 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 March …
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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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Wage suppression of married women induced by geographic immobility
… familiar notion, its effect on the male--female wage gap has not been examined empirically, perhaps because of the unavailability of adequate data. Utilizing the 1980 Census, which for the first time identifies the locations of all respondents in metropolitan areas, the present study estimates …
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Three essays on the family gap and child education
… important topics in family economics, the family gap and children’s education. The first two chapters discuss the difference in wages between mothers and non-mothers, known as the family gap or the motherhood wage gap, and the last chapter discusses child education and parenting. In the first …
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Essays on Noncognitive Skills
… 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 goal of …
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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 evaluation of race based income discrimination in post apartheid South Africa
… emanates from past discrimination legacies. The wage gap between white workers and blacks have been marginally high. The same goes for the wage gap between males and females who find themselves performing equal value work in most cases. White workers continue to occupy high-level positions in an …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… and their changes over time, led by a shrinking wage gap. The calibrated model predicts that hours and consumption volatility respond non-monotonically to changes in the wage gap. I show that as the wage gap for women grows smaller, women become closer to the participation frontier and find it …
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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 1900 …
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An Analysis on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Effect on Women Faculty in Higher Education
… 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 education …
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