Dorothe Bonjour

Publication List Details

Period

2002 - 2002

Number

10

Co-Authors

Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins

Bonjour, Dorothe, Cherkas, Lynn, Haskel, Jonathan, Spector, Tim

We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and...

Are civil servants paid too much? - A distributional analysis of the public-private wage gap in Switzerland

Dorothe Bonjour

This study investigates the public-private sector wage gap in Switzerland with a special focus on distributional aspects. Using data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey the study finds that the wage...

The unequal distribution of unequal pay - An empirical analysis of the gender wage gap in Switzerland

Dorothe Bonjour, Michael Gerfin

In this paper we analyze the distribution of the gender wage gap. Using microdata for Switzerland we estimate conditional wage distribution functions and find that the total wage gap and its...