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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Economic Synopses, 2011 The actual gender wage disparity (which compares the wages of male and female workers with similar labor-force characteristics) is lower than the raw gender earnings gap.Wages ; Discrimination in ...
Natalia Kolesnikova, Yang Liu
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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.
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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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Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We decompose distributional changes in the gender wage gap
Kassenböhmer, Sonja, Sinning, Mathias
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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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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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Period effects, cohort effects, and the narrowing gender wage gap [PDF]
Social Science Research, 2013 Colin Campbell
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