Why Is There a Gender Pay Gap? Gender pay gaps exist for a number of reasons, and cannot be attributed to just one cause. Women are more likely totake time off of work for child carereasons,to work part-time jobsinstead of full-time jobs and to work fewer hours with each additional ...
Gender differences in wages provide an indicator of the degree to which men and women do or do not receive equal incomes from paid work. The "gender wage gap" is measured here as the difference between male and female median full-time earnings expressed as a percentage of male median full-...
This study explores the influence of Internet use on the gender wage gap in China by using national longitudinal survey data. A fixed effects and instrumental variable method were employed to address individual heterogeneity and other endogeneity problems. The study contributes in the form of four ke...
( 2010 ), “ The gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ of the European Union ”, Working Paper No. 5044, IZA, Bonn.Christofides, L.N., A. Polycarpou, and K. Vrachimis (2010), "The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union...
Previous literatures believe that the strengthening of market mechanism will diminish the gender wage gaps while we find that it does not apply to the current labor market of college graduates. By analyzing samples of college students graduated in 2007 from Hebei Province working in firms with diffe...
After controlling for observables, the formal and the informal wage gaps are not statistically different. Second, selection into work status differs between men and women. The difference in magnitude and direction of the selectivity bias affects the estimation of the gender wage gap. In the ...
Using data from Kenya, the determinants of gender differences in the overall distribution of earnings are estimated as part of an explanation of the positive association between the return to measured and unmeasured human capital attributes as formalized by human capital theory (J. Mincer, 1974). ...
The implications of financial insecurity among women run deep. Pay gaps influence social security,retirement funds, and health insurance. Less wealth accumulation leads more women into poverty in their later years than men because they haven’t saved as much. Financial security protects our access t...
Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' in Europe We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 26 European countries, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Li... Louis N. Christofides,Alexandros Polycarpou,Konstantinos Vrachimis - 《...
gender wage gapsMincer equationOaxaca-Blinder decompositionQuantile regressionWe examine gender wage gap (GWG) in Greece for 2013, by using a survey data set. Our findings show first, that the unadjusted GWG is 15.3%, while European Commission reports a value of 15%. Secondly, we derive the ...