Essays about: "women s wages"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words women s wages.

  1. 1. 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)

    Author : Emina Peric; Rachel Stigh; [2022]
    Keywords : gender wage; native-immigrant wage gap; immigration; discrimination; women; labor market; wage differentials;

    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

  3. 2. Women, Work, and the Family Economy: A Study on the Determinants of Female Gainful Employment in Sweden, 1880-1910

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Joris Kok; [2018]
    Keywords : gainful employment; family economy; gender; marital status; nineteenth century; industrialisation; Sweden; Business and Economics; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Today, Swedish women have one of the highest participation rates. In the nineteenth century, however, virtually no married women were recorded as working. Their participation rates started rising around the turn-of-the-century. READ MORE

  4. 3. The gendered wage gap in the blue-collar sector : An urging to the collective organization of the blue-collar unions

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Umeå universitet/Juridiskt forum

    Author : Caroline Hövik; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis will handle the gendered wage gap in the blue-collar sectors and how the blue-collar unions collective organization (from here on referred to as LO) has handled this issue. In the Swedish labour market the unions and the employers’ organizations negotiate terms and conditions of employment that result in legally binding collective agreements. READ MORE

  5. 4. Finding The Women's Voice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Sandra Komuhiimbo; [2016]
    Keywords : Gender; Feminism; Media; Radio; Women s Radio; Voice; Women s Voice; Civic Engagement; Women s Movement; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : “There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women,” Kofi Annan (UN News Center, 2005). The empowerment of women takes different forms such as pursuit of education, participation in political activities and representation in leadership, equal employment opportunities and wages, access to health care and ability to make decisions on personal reproductive health, economic bargaining and decision making power and access to all public social services among others. READ MORE

  6. 5. Could the Effects of Climate Change be Profitable? A case study of climate induced migration into the Bangladeshi readymade garments industry.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Anna Plowman; [2015]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the possibility of a relationship between climate change and profitability in Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) industry. It investigates specifically the phenomenon of climate induced migration and how this may affect competition for employment in urban RMG production zones. READ MORE