Role of the human capital differences in the wage gap; Policies which address human capital differences; Policies which address labor market discrimination.StenzelTamaraF.Employee Rights QuarterlyStenzel, Tamara F. (2001) Why Is There a Gender Wage Gap and How Can We Fix It?, Employee Rights ...
LEVITT: So, measuring the gender gap — that’s the easy question. I’m sure much harder is trying to explain the gender wage gap. One story I hear all the time is about what economists call occupational gender segregation. Can you explain to non-economists what we mean by that?
S.J. Glynn, the Labor Department’s chief economist, said it’s too soon to tell whether 2023 was a blip or the start of a worrisome new trend for the gender wage gap. But she said that even a reversion to the pre-pandemic status quo is a reminder of how far behind women were in...
1. The fall season in gender-gap news hasstarted early and with a bang. A study released yesterday in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association shows that male doctors earn over 25% more thanfemale doctors. Why am I not surprised? There is a constant stream of storiesshowing gender di...
Some gender gaps are closing, but the pace of progress is too slow in trade. Reformers in government and business can show the way. Learn more.
And, while gender wage discrimination was and is a problem, women have made important gains in education and experience, and some have successfully penetrated barriers in high-end professions like law and medicine.The wage differences noted above are dramatic, and working wives, for example, have...
The second contribution is to assess this new hypothesis vis-à-vis others in the literature, using an estimated structural model. We find that the decrease in the price of home inputs explains a little over a third of the data. The decrease in the gender wage gap explains a third of ...
This measure would help close the gender pay gap and reduce discrimination in hiring, as employers would know that both men and women have equal chances of taking parental leave at some point. A vision beyond our lifetimes The path forward is challenging, but cathedral thinking offers a ...
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‘Environmental non-migration’ refers to the spatial continuity of an individual’s residence at the same place despite environmental risk. Moreover, this is a largely under-researched topic, especially within the climate change adaptation discourse, bu