Comparative Advantage or Discrimination?Studying Male-Female Wage DifferentialsUsing Displaced Workers

In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men andwomen. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. Thehypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatoryfirms by Black (1995) and an opportunity cost model that extends the Black model byincorporating age varying reservation wages...

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Year of publication:	2007-09-01
Authors:	Kunze, Astrid ; Troske, Kenneth R.
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Diskriminierung \| Age discrimination \| Arbeitnehmer \| Recherche \| recherche

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Extent:	300032 bytes 41 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3052 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics. General ; J7 - Discrimination ; Personnel administration. Human resources management. General ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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