Gender,Pay and Development: a Cross Country Analysis (2009)
Gender,Pay and Development: a Cross Country Analysis
University and The Empirical Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes Conference (2008)
Marianne Simonsen, Stefan Bender, Martin Browning, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Michael Lechner, Helena S. Nielsen, ...
Government Studies We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net effect includes the total wage costs, whereas the direct...
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai
null This paper investigates whether a satisfactory work environment can promote employee health even after controlling for socioeconomic status and life style factors. A dynamic panel model of...
Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002 (2008)
Bjørnskov, Christian, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Pedersen, Peder J.
Previous empirical research has been unable to find a sufficient correlationbetween subjective well-being and per capita income, being hampered by limited longitudinal information and an inability to...
The impact of Nordic countries' family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children (2008)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina, Verner, Mette
The Nordic countries at the same time exhibit a remarkably high participation rate of mothers and a more moderate decline in fertility rates compared to other Western countries. This has been...
De økonomiske effekter af familievenlig politik i de nordiske lande (2008)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina, Verner, Mette
I denne artikel belyser vi den senesteforskning indenfor effekterne af familiepolitikken i de nordiske lande. Vi spørger, hvilke fordele og ulemper familiepolitikken har haft for ligestillingen,for...
The validity of vignettes in cross country health studies (2008)
Pozzoli, Dario, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai
nullCross-country comparisons of subjective assessments may be ham-pered by sub-population speci.c response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular - notably...
External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies (2008)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai, Pozzoli, Dario
Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become...
New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap:: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer? (2006)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Eriksson, Tor Viking
nullWe estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish...
Multivariate Mixed Proportional Hazard Modelling of the Joint Retirement of Married Couples (2004)
An, Mark Y., Christensen, Bent Jesper, Gupta, Nabanita Datta
Bjørnskov, Christian, Gupta, Nabanita Datta
Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall's Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a...
Indien - demokrati den eneste mulighed (2003)
Shaw, Annpurna, Bhattacherjee, Debashish, Gupta, Nabanita Datta
Gender, pay and development: a cross-country analysis (2002)
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Gender, pay and development: a cross-country analysis (2002)
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Gender, pay and development: a cross-country analysis (2002)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Lown, Wendy
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Gender, pay and development: a cross-country analysis (2002)
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Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark (2002)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina
Abstract: The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved...
Gender, pay and development: a cross-country analysis (2002)
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Barselsorlov: Fakta og myter (2001)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Christoffersen, Mogens Nygaard, Smith, Nina
A Bivariate Duration Model of the Joint Retirement Decision of Married Couples (1999)
An, Mark Yuing, Christensen, Bent Jesper, Gupta, Nabanita Datta
Wage Dispersion, Public Sector Wages and the Stagnating Danish Gender Wage Gap (1998)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina
The gender wage gap in Denmark has virtually stagnated since the early 70s. This study examines whether this stagnation is mainly due to a changing wage dispersion or to changing prices on observed...
Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the...
Poverty and Fertility - An Instrumental Variables Analysis on Indian Micro Data
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Dubey, Amaresh
The gender of the first two children is used as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of fertility on poverty of rural nucleus households in India. In India, male children are viewed as...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Donna S. Rothstein
This paper uses matched employer-employee data from Denmark to examine how gender segregation at the level of occupation, industry, establishment, and job-cell impacts the gender wage differential of...
New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Tor Eriksson
We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private...
Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence
Marie-Claire Villeval, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...
Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, AMarie-Claire Villeval
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...
Analysing trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith
Trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s are analysed within the framework of simple auto-regressive time-series models. Results show a saturation effect in the wage progress...
Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People
Henning Bach, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jan Høgelund
Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the work-disabled in many countries. Merging a 2004 Danish survey to register...
Multivariate mixed proportional hazard modelling of the joint retirement of married couples
Mark Y. An, Bent Jesper Christensen, Nabanita Datta Gupta
We analyse the joint distribution of the durations until retirement of Danish husbands and wives. We estimate a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model that allows for interdependence in the...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith
Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...
Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner
Family friendly policies, Parental leave, Child care, Female labour force participation, Nordic countries, J1, J2, D1,
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton
The word for ‘married’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘poison’. The word for 'sweetheart' in Danish is the same as the word for 'tax'. In this paper we expand upon the literature...
Hearing Loss and Disability Exit: Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies
Vibeke T. Christensen, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Martin V. Rasmussen
Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith
Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina
We compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps have developed between 1983 and 1995 using U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data. Using a new decomposition method, we show that changes in...
Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages
Bonke, Jens, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina
This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to register information on hourly...
What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Christian Bjørnskov, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Peder J. Pedersen
Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall’s Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a...
Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...
Non-cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide...
Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nicolai Kristensen
Health, Workplace, Socioeconomic factors, Life style,
Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...
Male and Female Competitive Behavior
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval
competition; tournament; piece rate; gender; risk-aversion; relative ability; experiment
Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Leslie S Stratton
We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton
Differences in the pattern of marriage, cohabitation, childbirth, and intrahousehold specialization between the United States and Denmark, as well as a rich, register-based panel sample of about...
The validity of vignettes in cross country health studies
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai, Pozzoli, Dario
Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments may be ham- pered by sub-population speci…c response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular - notably...