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Economic Record, EarlyView.We investigate whether being female, Indigenous, from a non‐English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past 20 years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at junior ranks. NESB staff have much lower promotion
Robert Breunig, David Hansell, Nu Nu Win
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Contract Labour, Job Quality and Turnover Intention—Evidence From Nigeria
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Labour contracting, where intermediaries provide farmers with migrant workers, plays a central role in meeting the demand for seasonal labour on labour‐intensive farms. Yet this system poses underresearched challenges for both workers and farmers.
Olayinka Aremu +3 more
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models [PDF]
, 2006 The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and ...
Fairlie, Robert W.
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Coresidence: How parental characteristics matter
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Coresidence in the parental home is known to depend on young adult characteristics and market conditions, but there is more limited knowledge on whether or how parental characteristics matter. We model the coresidence outcome as a multigenerational joint optimization decision and use Panel Study of Income Dynamics data to examine the ...
Arthur Acolin +2 more
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The German spatial poverty divide: poorly endowed or bad luck? [PDF]
We study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates are particularly
Bönke, Timm, Schröder, Carsten
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Examining the gender pay gap among financial planning professionals: A Blinder‐Oaxaca decomposition [PDF]
FINANCIAL PLANNING REVIEW, 2019 AbstractThe financial planning industry has been identified as having one of the largest gender pay gaps. This study examines whether male and female financial planners receive equal pay for equal work. Using detailed data on the backgrounds and practices of 710 financial planners, an unadjusted pay gap of 19% was observed between male and female ...
Derek T. Tharp +4 more
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how parental housework time and labor market participation during early childhood are associated with adolescents' housework participation. Background Prior research shows that parental time use is associated with adolescents' housework in gendered ways.
Kefan Xue, Boyan Zheng
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Gender pay gaps in Morocco: urban-rural disparities across the wage distribution
Development Studies ResearchGender pay gaps persist as a significant feature of labor markets in developing countries, with disparities varying across the wage distribution and between urban and rural areas.
Fatima Mounir +2 more
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The Gap of Visual Impairment Between Economic Groups in Shahroud, Iran: A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2011 The authors assessed the role of economic inequality in visual impairment and decomposed the gap between high and low income groups. Study data were extracted from the first phase of the Shahroud Eye Cohort Study, performed in 2009, with 5,190 participants aged between 40 and 64 years.
Mohammad Hassan, Emamian +5 more
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The Gender Gap in Early-Career Wages of Universities’ and Vocational Education Institutes’ Graduates
Вопросы образования, 2021 Data from the Federal Statistical Sample Survey of Employment of Vocational Education and Higher Education Graduates is used to measure the gender wage gap and analyze the factors explaining gender inequality.
Margarita Kiryushina, Victor Rudakov
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