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Gender, race & the veteran wage gap

Social Science Research, 2017
This paper analyzes earnings outcomes of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. We utilize the 2009-2013 American Community Survey and a worker-matching methodology to decompose wage differences between veteran and non-veteran workers. Among fully-employed, 25-40 year-olds, veteran workers make 3% less than non-veteran workers. While male veterans make 9% less
Brandon Vick, Gabrielle Fontanella
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Female finances: Gender Wage Gaps and Gender Assets Gaps

Work, Employment and Society, 2001
The size and source of the gender wage gap in Britain has been well researched. Women's typically lower status employment and their reduced, discontinuous career profiles when they have caring responsibilities have combined seriously to damage their ability to earn a decent wage.
Warren T, Rowlingson K, Whyley C
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Gender Wage Gap und Familienpolitik

IW-Trends, 2008
Der durchschnittliche effektive Stundenlohnunterschied zwischen erwerbstatigen Frauen und Mannern zwischen 15 und 65 Jahren betrug im Jahr 2006 etwa 28 Prozent. Bei diesem Vergleich wird aber vernachlassigt, dass Frauen beispielsweise in anderen Branchen oder Berufen arbeiten oder dass es Unterschiede hinsichtlich des Qualifikationsniveaus gibt.
Anger, Christina, Schmidt, Jörg
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The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part? [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching
Caliendo, Marco, Lee, Wang-Sheng, Mahlstedt, Robert   +2 more
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Minimum wages and the gender wage gap

Applied Economics, 1996
Estimates are made of the effect of minimum wages on the size and composition of the gender wage gap in Canada in 1986. It is found that minimum wages close the wage gap substantially for young workers and less so for adults. The reduction in the gap is most attributable to the adverse employment effects of minimum wages. The results also indicate that
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The Gender Gap in Pensions and Wages

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1990
This study provides rationale for the underrepresentation of women in the pension sector and examines the consequences for the gender wage gap. For a given set of observed characteristics, a woman is 11-19 percent less likely than a man to have a pension. Of the unexplained portion of the gender wage gap, 10-38 percent is due to unexplained differences
Even, William E, Macpherson, David A
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Robots, Computers, and the Gender Wage Gap

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
We analyze the effects of two automation technologies, industrial robots and computing equipment, on the gender wage gap in US local labor markets between 1990 and 2015. We find distinct impact of robot and computer capital: an increase in robots decreases male wage more than female wage, whereas an increase in computers reduces female wage more than ...
Suqin Ge, Yu Zhou
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The Early Career Gender Wage Gap [PDF]

, 2006
In Finland the gender wage gap increases significantly during the first 10 years after labor market entry accounting most of the life-time increase in the gender wage gap. This paper focuses on the early career gender wage differences among university graduates and considers several explanations for the gender wage gap based on the human capital theory,
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The gender gap in employment and wages

Nature Human Behaviour, 2019
Despite a century of convergence, there is still no evidence of fully closing gender gaps in employment and wages, possibly reflecting a suboptimal allocation of talent. Economic research has emphasized the role of gender differences in preferences, work–life balance considerations and gender identity norms in shaping the observed gender trends.
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Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021
Christian Dustmann, Attila Lindner, Philipp vom Berge   +2 more
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