This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correctin...
The presence of foreign firms has, meanwhile, only limited effects on gender gaps in employment for skilled workers. Finally, we show that the negative gaps in wages are entirely due to differences in productivities between female and male workers. Not only do we reject the hypothesis of ...
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, Inequality, and Wages also considers international differences in the gender wage gap and wage inequality more generally, ascribing an important role to wage setting institutions. ... FD Blau - 《Oup Catalogue》 被引量: 31发表: 2012年 From wage regulation to wage gap: how wage-setting...
We find that full equality in earnings and employment between women and men would reduce household earnings inequality considerably, with the most substantial reductions coming from closing the gender gap in employment as opposed to closing the gaps in pay and hours worked. A 10% counterfactual ...
This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then review methods used to decompose the gender wage gap and the ...
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...
Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we document that gender differences in wages almost double during the first 20 years of labor market experience and that there are substantial gender differences in employment and hours of work during the life cycle. A large...
The government has said it wants to encourage more women into full-time employment in recent years but the gender gap has grown. 近年来日本政府表示,想鼓励更多女性做全职工作,但是性别鸿沟却一直在扩大。 Japan ranked 121st out of 153 countries in a 2019 report on gender equality by the World ...
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...