Decomposing the wage gap between genders, the results show that the difference in wages is attributed mainly to the unexplained part and to a lesser extent to the employee's characteristics. In all deciles of the wage distributi...
The first section is Stage 1: Claimsmakers which introduces the source(s) making claims about the troubling condition of economic inequality specifically as it relates to the gap in pay between genders. In addition, this area specifies the ideological perspective of this analysis and provides the ...
The pay gap between genders exhibits sexism in America yet some researchers are in denial. Warren Farrell, expert on gender issues within legislation and former board member of National Organization for Women, claims otherwise. In his book Why Men Earn More, he attributes difference in wages to ...
The wage gap is not consistent across all fields. Women actually out-earned men, on average, as office administrators, architects and in the civil engineering spheres. The field with the biggest discrepancies between genders was academia. Male academics earned an average of NIS 97.6 ($25.94) per...
Firstly, the BFG model confirms that while the DEI increases wages across genders in both sectors, the wage growth of female gig workers lags behind their male counterparts, a gap not observed in traditional sectors. Our evidence of a gender wage gap within the gig economy aligns with studies...
Gender gap indexTest scoresMathematicsImmigrantsThis paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings ...
Firstly, the BFG model confirms that while the DEI increases wages across genders in both sectors, the wage growth of female gig workers lags behind their male counterparts, a gap not observed in traditional sectors. Our evidence of a gender wage gap within the gig economy aligns with studies...
Wage-profit elasticity is found to be 14 percent and it is insignificantly different between genders. With respect to the overall gender wage gap (on average women earn 28 percent less than men), the results show that within firms there is no gender discrimination and that 12 percent of this...
We show that the temporary negative shock in labor supply due to childbearing may create a wage trap and a permanent divergence of labor earnings between genders. Even when the wage trap is avoided, and working mothers are on a path toward a high-wage equilibrium, slow convergence can ...
Additional return to private experience for the low educated is a city phenomenon for both genders. Among the high educated, women have lower additional return to private sector experience than men and receive no additional return in cities. The extra first-year return from private experience ...