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Factors shaping the gender wage gap among college-educated computer science workers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Encouraging women to pursue STEM employment is frequently touted as a means of reducing the gender wage gap. We examine whether the attributes of computer science workers-who account for nearly half of those working in STEM jobs-explain the persistent ...
Sharon Sassler, Pamela Meyerhofer
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Labor market segmentation and the gender wage gap: Evidence from China. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAlthough the Chinese government has implemented a variety of measures, the gender wage gap in 21st century China has not decreased. A significant body of literature has studied this phenomenon using sector segmentation theory, but these studies have ...
Mingming Li, Yuan Tang, Keyan Jin
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Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Occupational segregation is widely considered as one major reason leading to the gender discrimination in labor market. Using large-scale Chinese re-sume data of online job seekers, we uncover an interesting phenomenon that occupations with higher ...
Wei Bai, Zhongtao Yue, Tao Zhou
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Differences in wage rates for males and females in the health sector: a consideration of unpaid overtime to decompose the gender wage gap [PDF]
Human Resources for Health, 2013 Background In Australia a persistent and sizable gender wage gap exists. In recent years this gap has been steadily widening. The negative impact of gender wage differentials is the disincentive to work more hours.
Vecchio Nerina +3 more
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Gender wage gap and child malnutrition in Ethiopia: A probit instrumental variable method [PDF]
HeliyonObjective: Child malnutrition is a widespread concern in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previous studies mainly focus on the association between women's employment status and child malnutrition, however, the aim of this study is to examine the causal effect of ...
Wenyi Lyu, Leng Yu, Haihong Lv
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The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence. [PDF]
Am Econ Rev, 2010 Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. This study exploits exogenous changes in the demand for labor in female-dominated industries to estimate the impact of the male-female wage gap on domestic violence. Decreases in the wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model ...
Aizer A.
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Gender wage gap in Serbia: Inheritance and sources of the wage gap [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2021 The aim of this paper is to determine the size, structure, and significance of the differences in wages between men and women during the early transition in Serbia in the 2000s.
Ognjenović Kosovka
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Role of Commuting Time on Explaining Gender Wage Gap in Indonesia
Journal of Indonesian Applied Economics, 2023 Purpose This research aims to identify the role of commuting time on explaining gender wage gap in Indonesia Design/methodology/approach Using dataset from National Labor Survey (Sakernas) 2019, this research estimated 33.6% wage gap between men ...
Biyan Shandy Paramayudha
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Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Employment in Informal Sector
The Journal of Indonesia Sustainable Development Planning, 2022 The gender wage gap is still a common phenomenon in many developing countries, especially in the informal sector. As opposed to the formal sector, the gender wage gap seems more adverse in the informal sector, where women are often in unfavourable ...
Fakhriza Akbar
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Economies, 2023 In this paper, we analyse the impact of gender equality in managerial positions on wages and the gender wage gap in 22 European countries. We draw on the employer–employee microdata from the European Structure of Earnings Survey (E-SES) for the year 2018,
Lidia de Castro Romero +2 more
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