What factors determine the gender labor gap? Does labor precariousness determine the gender wage gap? We analyze the conditions in which increases in income inequality are accompanied by increased labor precariousness in the 32 Mexican metropolitan areas. We also asses which sectors had the greatest i...
Some argue that the gender wage gap would have decreased even more, had overall wage inequality not grown. According to these researchers, the increasing dispersion of wages pushed women's mean wage further away from men's, so women had to swim upstream to reduce the gender wage gap. This ...
occupation, industry, and hours or weeks worked do contribute to the gender wage gap, they cannot entirely explain away the difference in earnings.Additional researchshows that lower-paying fields, such as elementary education and social work, tend to be dominated by women,...
a recent finding points to the price many paid for stepping back: In 2023, thegender wage gapbetween men and women working full-time widened year-over-year for the first time in 20 years, according to an annual report from the U.S. Census Bureau. ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — We hear it over and over again: the myth of the gender wage “gap.” Here’s President Obama, speaking on June 4: “And we’ve made progress. But we’ve got a lot more to do. Women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” An Obama...
Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women∗ 作者的话: 迟到的更新来啦!这次的文章还是夏校之后自己读的第一篇文章。写着写着,就想念哈佛的小伙伴啦! 上个星期招聘榜更新之后,由很多小伙伴们响应了我的文章,而我也为我们的专栏新招了几...
She also illustrated that the process of closing the gender wage gap has been uneven over the course of history.Recently, progress in closing it has been halting:Today, Women in the United States makea little over 80 cents for every dollar a man makes. ...
Wahlberg, R 2010, `The gender wage gap across the wage distribution in the private and public sectors', Applied Economics Letters, vol. 17, no. 15, pp. 1465-1468.Wahlberg, R. (2010). The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in the Private and Public Sectors in Sweden, Applied...
The aim of my dissertation is to study the gender wage gap with a specific focus on developing andtransition countries. In the first chapter I present the main existing theories proposed to analyse thegender wage gap and I review the empirical literature on the gender wage gap in developing an...
This study updates Gregory's work by comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of Gregory: institutions are still important in explaining the relative size of the gender wage gap....