Legislation and Labour Market Gender Inequality: An Analysis of Oecd Countries

Whitehouse, Gillian

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“…In a study of nine industrialized countries, Rosenfeld and Kalleberg (1991) report that gender earnings ratios in the full-time labor force are higher in the public sector than in the private sector, in all countries except Sweden (see our Table 6). In a pooled time-series study of the OECD countries, Whitehouse (1992) finds that government employment is positively associated with the female/male wage ratio; she concludes that "the In Esping-Andersen's work, the placement of the Netherlands is problematic, as it incorporates 3 features of both social democratic and conservative/corporatist welfare states. Recent analysts of EspingAndersen's work (e.g., Sainsbury 1994) have placed the Netherlands in the conservative/corporatist cluster, and we follow their lead.…”

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“…High levels of public employment, both across countries and over time, have been positively associated with levels of female employment (Kolberg 1991;OECD 1982;Schmidt 1993;Whitehouse 1992). Huber and Stephens (1996) note that the relationship between levels of public employment and female employment works in both directions: "rising women's labor 9 force participation feeds demands for social services which both enable women to enter the labor force and provide employment for them" (p. 3).…”

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“…Indeed, Whitehouse (1992) reports a strong positive relationship between centralization of wage-setting and the gender earnings ratio; Rosenfeld and Kalleberg (1991) report that more corporatist countries have higher gender earnings equality. Interestingly, policies aimed specifically at women --including elements of family policy (Rosenfeld and Kalleberg 1991) and equal pay/opportunity legislation (Whitehouse 1992) --seem to have little to no independent effect on the magnitude of gender pay gaps.…”

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“…Third, the "greater scope for regulation of working conditions in public employment, and the lower degree of exposure to market pressures" (Whitehouse 1992) would be expected to raise the floor on the bottom end of the public pay scale. These and other arguments hold that a public-sector wage premium should be a general feature of government employment.…”

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Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries

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Jacobs²

1998

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries AbstractThis paper explores the influence of government employment on the gender gap in earnings in seven countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). We raise and answer four questions about the effects of public sector employment on the gender gap in earnings. (1) Do governments offer jobs that are comparatively high paying? (2) Does public employment benefit some workers, such as low-paid workers, more than others? (3) Are public sector employment advantages explained by differences in worker characteristics and the occupational mix? (4) Finally, what is the effect of public employment --its extent and its pay structure --on gender gaps in earnings? The results indicate marked variation across liberal, conservative, and social democratic welfare states, but reveal a number of uniformities as well. We find that public-sector workers earn more, on average, than those working in the private sector in most countries in our sample, and most earnings advantages are concentrated on the lower end of the earnings distribution. Generally, a large share of the public/private earnings differential --especially in the social democratic and conservative countries --is explained by sectoral differences in worker characteristics and occupation. The effect of public employment on the overall gender gap in earnings is limited in most countries. We discuss the implications of these results for theory and research on gender and the welfare state.

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“…3. The findings from these studies confirm the more general observation that cross-national variation in wage structures (e.g., inter-decile inequality, gender pay gap and low wage incidence) are shaped over the long term by differences in collective bargaining centralization and coverage, union density and level of minimum wages (Fortin and Lemieux 1997;Whitehouse 1992 (Banyuls et al 2010), the United Kingdom (Grimshaw, Shepherd and Rubery 2010) and the comparative report ) -and in an edited book . 5.…”

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The impact of macroeconomic and structural factors on the unemployment of young women and men

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The presented article follows the research mainstream of econometric analyses focused on the assessment of correlations between youth unemployment rate and market and macroeconomic determinants, including economic growth and productivity of the economy, its structure in terms of NACE Rev.2 sections as well as the labor market tools. The research addresses 28 European Union (EU) countries. The analysis period covers the years 2008–2018. The econometric methods dedicated to panel data were used. The research results confirm the importance of the general economic condition as well as the development of knowledge-based economy for the improvement of the youth situation in the labor market. With regard to the economy structure, the development of manufacturing section importance turned out to be a major factor in female youth unemployment rate reduction. The growing importance of the construction sector translated into a decline in the unemployment rate among young men.

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Legislation and Labour Market Gender Inequality: An Analysis of Oecd Countries

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Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries

Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries

The Pay Equity Effects of Minimum Wages: A Comparative Industrial Relations Approach

The impact of macroeconomic and structural factors on the unemployment of young women and men

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