For decades, scholars have tried to sort out how much of the gender gap in wages is caused by raw discrimination and how much is driven by mediating factors. Female faculty members have sometimes been found, for example, to have fewer and less-prestigious postgraduate degrees, onAcademic ...
In contrast, this article analyzes a sample of 546 undocumented workers of both sexes to measure the gender difference in wages and to identify the extent to which this difference is the result of sex discrimination. It finds that while the relative wage gap between male and female undocumented...
The Gender Gap in Agricultural Wages in India: Spatial Variation, Caste and Non-Farm EmploymentThis paper looks at the regional variation in agricultural wages received by men andwomen in India and tries to explain a seemingly contradictory observation that the gender differential in wages is ...
gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for life-cycle wages. Using state-by-...
We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched employer-employee database. Self-managed teams, project ...
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese women are still earning lower wages than men, but the gender wage gap is narrowing as more women are taking up more management roles, a new survey has found. In 2019, the average wage for Chinese urban men was 22.5 percent higher than women's, dow...
The news is not all bad: Wages rose for all workers last year, but faster for men. And while the gender wage gap rose, it’s on par with what it was in 2019 before the pandemic hit. Related Stories Men earn more than women in egalitarian Norway, report finds. But it's o...
our study delves into gender wage gaps within the gig economy in China, considering the impact of the evolving digital economy. We also conduct comparisons between these gaps in both the gig and traditional economic sectors to better elucidate factors shaping the gender wage gap. Specifically, this...
The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception, Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 23 作者:MJ Bailey,B Hershbein,AR Miller,J Bound,Sarah Turner 摘要: This paper uses the NLS and CPS to document the remarkable changes in lifecycle wages for women born...
When the researchers documented patterns in potential wages across five-year birth cohorts by gender, their analysis revealed that, on average, women chose majors with lower potential wages than men did. But while there is an ever-present female penalty in potential wages, that gap has narrowed....