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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"wage gaps"”.
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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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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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An analysis of the relationship between health and the labour market in South Africa
… market earnings as well as impairment-related wage discrimination is not well-known in South Africa. Therefore, this thesis sought to establish the relationship between health on the one hand, and labour force participation, wage determination and wage discrimination on the other, in South …
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Essays on Crime and Social Inequality
… on occupational task intensity and gender wage gaps. Using Labour Force Survey microdata and adapting task classifications from Autor et al. (2013), I measure the intensity of abstract, routine, contact, and manual tasks. Over the past 25 years, both men and women experienced rising …
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Youth unemployment and the transition from school to work in Cape Town
… residual difference method of decomposing group wage differences (Oaxaca, 1973) to discrete choice models. I find that most of the employment gap by age is explained by individual characteristics. Slightly more than half of the racial employment gap however is unexplained by individual …
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Factors Underlying Non-Metropolitan-to-Metropolitan Commuting Decisions in Northern Virginia Households
This study analyzes the wage and non-wage factors underlying non-metropolitan-to-metropolitan commuting decisions of households in five non-metropolitan counties in Northern Virginia. The potential fiscal and planning implications of these decisions are also discussed. Chapter one contains a …
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The Economic Impact of Migration on the European Countries
… market outcomes such as income differentials and wage gaps between migrants and natives. However, few papers have investigated the impact of migration on economic growth. To address this gap, this thesis aims to make a contribution to knowledge by assessing whether there is any long-run …
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Three essays on labor market disparities and inequality
… The focus is to investigate the determinants of gaps in various labor market outcomes over the life cycle between different demographic groups and to study whether the increased earnings inequality over the past decades has been connected with another macroeconomic trend, increased concentration …
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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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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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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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Pay discrimination revisiting the concept and international perspectives
Sex based wage discrimination has received much attention especially in the late seventies and throughout the eighties. South Africa has had pay equality provisions in place since 1980 and specific legislation in 1988. Although no comprehensive gender based wage study exist prior to 1980, …
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An assessment of a quick response case study in an apparel textile pipeline in the Western Cape
… mistrust, managerial prerogative, and large wage gaps. It is clear that Quick Response as described in the theory is a type of flexible specialisation, which is the change in manufacturing in the post-Fordist era. However, the version used in this pipeline contained many elements of Fordist …
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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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Three Essays on Labor Economics
… labor market sheds light on explaining existing wage discrimination, gender wage gaps, and inform policy makers with respect to anti-discrimination legislation. Using a unique Wisconsin dataset, I specifically examine occupational sorting through which physical attractiveness may affect long-run …
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Three Essays on Robust Estimation of Key Factors Underlying the Changes to the U.S. Income Distribution
… variables in explaining the changes of U.S. wage distribution function over the period of 1990-2000. The effects of these factors are estimated by using the Chamberlain's two stage Box-Cox quantile regression approach. One of the main contributions of this chapter is that it relaxes the …