
Gender Pay Differentials
Cross-National Evidence from Micro-Data
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 206 pages
978-1-349-28135-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of pay inequalities between women and men in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data. Particular attention is devoted to job access and workplace practices, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XI, 206 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
283 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-28135-0 (9781349281350)
DOI
10.1057/9780230504028
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04/2006
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Persons
W. ROBERT J. ALEXANDER Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand
TOR ERIKSSON Professor, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
AMYNAH GANGJI Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
DOLORES GARCIA CRESPO University of Malaga, Spain
HERMANN GARTNER Institute for Employment Research, Germany
MURAT GENÇ Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand
NABANITA DATTA GUPTA Associate Professor (On Leave), Aarhus School of Business and Research Professor, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark
MOHAMMAD JAFORULLAH Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand
OLIVIER JOSEPH Céreq DEVA, France
SÉVERINE LEMIÈRE Associate Researcher, DULBEA, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
KRISTIAN ORSINI Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
SALIMATA SISSOKO Research Fellow, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), Belgium
ILAN TOJEROW Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), Free University of Brussels, Belgium
PHILIPPE VAN KERM Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies/International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development (CEPS/INSTEAD), Luxembourg
Content
List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction; B.Mahy, R.Plasman & F.Rycx PART 1: JOB ACCESS AND WORKPLACE PRACTICES Assessing Gender Discrimination amongst Young People on their Arrival into the Labour Market: Analysis Young Populations of French and Foreign Origin; O.Joseph & S.Lemière High-Performance Work Performances, Incentive Pay Schemes, Worker Evaluation and Male-Female Wages; N.D.Gupta & T.Eriksson PART 2: PROMOTIONS AND WAGE GROWTH Return to Internal Mobility in the Spanish Labour Market: Differences by Gender; D.Garcia Crespo Gender Differences in Wage Growth and Promotion in Luxembourg; P.Van Kerm PART 3: SECTORS, PROFITS AND RENT-SHARING The Gender Pay Gap in Belgium: How Much Do Sectors Matter? F.Rycx & I.Tojerow Gender Wage Inequality and Rent Sharing: Evidence from a German Linked Employer-Employee-Dataset; H.Gartner PART 4: DYNAMICS AND UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? A Panel Data Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap in European Countries, 1994-2001; A.Gangji, C.Orsini & S.Sissoko The Gender Wage Ratio in New Zealand 1997-2003; W.R.J.Alexander, M.Genç & M.Jaforullah Index