gender wage gapwage subsidyThis paper examines the interplay between the female labour supply and wages through human capital accumulation in South Korea, highlighting the significant gender wage gap and low female labor participation. Our findings suggest that wage subsidies alone are insufficient for ...
Vague, high-level task descriptions: while vague descriptions could mean that you simply don’t have a good idea of what will be required of you, they also could lead to problems down the road when you’re asked to take on the job of more than one person. Remember that it’s not rea...
And then I went down the gender rabbithole…. I committed to stopping woke. Reply Richard England says: November 3, 2022 at 4:09 pm My breaking point came from a unusual source. I worked for a law firm (an LLP) in England two years ago. The business prided itself on promoting ...
“I don’t think anyone is going into this saying there for sure is a wage gap, whether that’s gender or race or disability,” she says. “But it is concerning to everyone that every single time someone tries to create more transparency, Apple shuts it down. It makes it feel like m...
Globally, women earn on average just 68% of what men are paid for the same work. In countries with least gender parity, this goes down to just 40% on average, according to the World Economic Forum. Research suggests that the higher a woman rises through a company’s ranks, the mor...
“Unlike in the United States and Europe, Japanese firms protected jobs even when the pandemic hit,” Kuroda said when asked why the trickle-down to households has been weak. “Wage growth has been fairly modest, but that’s not the main reason consumption is weak,” he told a briefing ...
Targeted wage subsidies for households with infants and toddlers can mitigate career interruptions and enhance human capital for women. However, it also attracts lower-productivity women into the labor market, further exacerbating the gender wage gap. Therefore, direct labour market structural reforms, ...