Sökning: "earnings gaps"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden earnings gaps.

  1. 1. Are Ethnic Income Gaps a Result of Attitudes? : Differences in earnings between natives and immigrants on the Swedish labor market

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Författare :Anes Velic; [2022]
    Nyckelord :income gap; employer s prejudice; attitudes; unemployment;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Migrant- and Gender Wage Gaps in Sweden : Evidence from a Quantile Decomposition

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Författare :Tilda Nilsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Gender gaps and poverty traps in Mexico's labor markets

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Isaac Lopez Moreno Flores; [2020]
    Nyckelord :gender gaps; informality; labor force participation; multidimensional poverty; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This research evaluated the existence and magnitude of different gender gap dimensions in the Mexican labor markets using a cross-section database from 2018. We also analyze how narrowing these gender gaps can contribute to reduce poverty levels in Mexico. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Har du vad som krävs? : En jämförande studie av färdigheters betydelse för löner och sysselsättning

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Anna Fornwall; Emma Paulsson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Wage distribution; employment; human capital; wage compression; return to skills; income equality; Lönefördelning; sysselsättning; humankapital; lönekomprimering; avkastning på färdigheter; jämlika löner;

    Sammanfattning : I denna undersökning studeras betydelsen av färdigheterna läskunnighet, räknefärdighet och problemlösning på sysselsättning och lönenivå. Undersökningen fokuserar främst på att studera om färdigheterna hos kvinnor och utrikes födda har annorlunda påverkan än för befolkningen i helhet. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gender Earnings Gap in urban Ecuador: Looking beyond Averages

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Tania Elizabeth Guerra Rosero; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Gender earnings gap; labor market; glass ceiling effect; sticky floor effect; occupational segregation; self-employment; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the gender earnings gaps in urban Ecuador during the period between 2003 and 2012. The difference between the female average earnings and the male average earnings increases from 7% in 2003 to 12% in 2012. LÄS MER