In other words, it is possible that omitted variables representing job characteristics which are more common in larger firms and that are more valued by women than men could

As it turns out that a significant part of the gender wage penalty is observed when workers move to a larger firm, section 6 explores the existence of gender differences in

Country difference Outcome—Gender wage gap H1 Investment into job- specific skills Disparity in job-specific skills explains the wage gap between male and female

Estimates from Model 5 of Table 4 lend support to these conjectures: women stayers have higher wage (coefficient on dummy for gender is positive and statistically significant)

Estimates from Model 5 of Table 4 lend support to these conjectures: women stayers have higher wage (coefficient on dummy for gender is positive and statistically significant)

While controlling wages at prior jobs, the multilevel model analysis shows that the wage growth rates in the six mobility patterns were stratified as follows: mobility between

This paper introduces the Big Five personality traits along with other covariates in a job search, matching and bargaining model and investigates how education and personality

(2013) estimate that between 1960 and 2008 approximately 60 percent of real wage growth for Black women, 40 percent for White women, and 45 percent for Black men can be attributed

Authors’ calculation based on natality figures by type of confinement available at Statistics Netherlands (2012)... Authors’ calculation based on natality figures by type of

However, when including the job characteristics as explanatory factors in the wage equation the proportion of the wage gap attributable to discrimination is reduced, although there

dataset where job-level task information is collected longitudinally, in conjunction with the time allocation feature of the data, allows us to compute six task-specific

This is plausible because (a) human capital differentials are more likely to show up in high skill occupations creating larger occupational gender wage gaps in high skill

In the public sector, the decomposition of the FE gender wage gap estimates show that women’s earnings would decline by 4 per cent if they had the same labour market

We find some support for an explanation based on an equilibrium theory of selective non- participation in the labor market, whereby some of the higher-wage married female workers

I use the full time period, 1980–2001, to track labor market history variables such as the tenure of a worker at his current …rm, the tenure of a worker in his industry and a

Second, workers who change jobs, on average, gain 0.3 percent per year from moving to a firm with a higher firm earnings premium, but lose 1.6 percent per year transitory

Adult literacy rates by gender are available from the Human Development Report and are used as an independent variable in the study as the male to female literacy ratio..

In particular, a worker that earns 30% less than the average wage for a worker with his characteristics and labor market experience is more than one and a half times as likely