Essays about: "Gender earnings gap"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words Gender earnings gap.
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1. The Great Recession’s Impact on Gender Wage in the Top Quantiles in the US
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : The gender wage gap in the labour market has long been a topic of study, highlighting the disadvantages faced by women in terms of earningscompared to men. This study aims to investigate if the Great Recession had additional impacts on women's earnings differentials. READ MORE
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2. Discrimination on the labor market towards immigrant women : Is there a different gender wage gap amongst immigrant women compared to natives?
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : The gender inequality in the labor market has long been a discussed and studied topic, and today it is acknowledged that women are discriminated against and face disadvantages in earnings compared to men. This study aims to further investigate if immigrant women face additional earnings differentials due to their ethnicity, more specifically in the Norwegian labor market. READ MORE
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3. Are Ethnic Income Gaps a Result of Attitudes? : Differences in earnings between natives and immigrants on the Swedish labor market
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : Are ethnic income gaps a result of attitudes? This paper studies how natives’ negative attitudes towards immigrants affect the income gap on the Swedish labor market. The significance of this question is based on policies in the European union that work towards labor markets that are free from discrimination that are based on characteristics such as ethnicity, gender etc. READ MORE
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4. The Migrant- and Gender Wage Gaps in Sweden : Evidence from a Quantile Decomposition
University essay from Umeå universitet/NationalekonomiAbstract : This thesis investigates the migrant- and gender wage gaps for female immigrants in the Swedish labour market for 2005. By using Swedish microdata on income and taking advantage of decomposition methods, in particular the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) and the Recentered Influence Function, proposed by Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2018), this thesis analyses the pay gaps at the mean and across the distribution. READ MORE
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5. A study about gender pay gap for nurses in Denmark : Is there a the gender wage gap for nurses in Denmark?
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : This study investigates the gender earnings gap among nurses in Denmark years 2004-2016. The data at hand will be from Luxembourg Income studies which provided 7078 observations. Furthermore, ordinary least squares method with gender as dummy variable will be conducted. The findings are a raw male-female annual wage gap of 13 percent. READ MORE
