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Gender sorting and the glass ceiling in high tech
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Campero, Santiago - 2012
Past studies of gender and hierarchy document that the proportion of women declines as one looks up levels of the organizational hierarchy. With few exceptions, studies have conceived of the glass ceiling as reflecting disparities in internal promotion. Recent research has questioned this...
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Warum Vaeter ihre Erwerbstaetigkeit (nicht) unterbrechen. Mikrooekonomische versus in der Persoenlichkeit des Vaters begruendete Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit du...
Vogt, Ann-Cathrin; Pull, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 24 (2010) 1, pp. 49-68
Der Beitrag untersucht die Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch Vaeter in Deutschland. Zwar stieg der Anteil der Vaeter in Elternzeit seit der Elterngeldreform im Jahr 2007 kontinuierlich an, doch stellen Vaeter immer noch die Minderheit der Elternzeit-Beansprucher. Im...
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Artificial intelligence and labour market matching
Broecke, Stijn - 2023
While still in its infancy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in labour market matching, whether by private recruiters, public and private employment services, or online jobs boards and platforms. Applications range from writing job descriptions, applicant sourcing, analysing...
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Selection wages and discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010), pp. 1-30
confined to issues of sex discrimination; rather it is of relevance for all labor markets where labor heterogeneity is …
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Does it pay to be beautiful? : physically attractive people can earn more, particularly in customer-facing jobs, and the rewards for men are higher than for women
Sierminska, Eva - 2015
It is a well-established view amongst economists that goodlooking people have a better chance of employment and can earn more than those who are less physically attractive. A "beauty premium" is particularly apparent in jobs where there is a productivity gain associated with good looks, though...
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LGBTI in OECD countries : a review
Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2017
attitudes toward LGBTI, LGBTI rights and perceived discrimination among LGBTI. It goes on to discuss the empirical strategies … at school and suffer academically; (iii) LGBTI face hiring and wage discrimination; (iv) LGBTI show higher rates of … physical and mental health problems, in particular due to social rejection. The paper concludes by reviewing anti-discrimination …
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Height and Leadership
Lindqvist, Erik - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 4, pp. 1191-1196
This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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Social inference and occupational choice: Type-based beliefs in a Bayesian model of class formation
Oxoby, Robert J. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 51 (2014) C, pp. 30-37
Beliefs are a key motivator of individual behavior. As such, an understanding of how individuals’ beliefs develop is a prerequisite to understanding decision-making and behavior. While rational choice theory posits a Bayesian framework for belief formation, status construction theories argue...
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Myth or fact? The beauty premium across the wage distribution in Germany
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - In: Economics Letters 129 (2015) C, pp. 29-34
We allow for differential effects of physical appearance across the wage distribution using a technique traditionally used in the finance literature. We find an average beauty premium of 2%–4% for women, which is concentrated at the bottom of the wage distribution. The average beauty premium...
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Labor Market Discrimination in Lima, Peru: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011
We analyze labor discrimination in Peru, a fast-growing country where much anecdotal evidence suggests the presence of …
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