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Social norms and firms’ discriminatory pay-setting

Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - 2012

This study analyzes the relationship between discriminatory social attitudes and the variation of within-firm pay gaps by combining data on regional votes on gender equality laws with a data set of multi-establishments firms and their workers. The data set allows us for the first time to study...

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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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How are women faring in the Bangladeshi labour market? : evidence from labour force survey data

Bidisha, Sayema Haque; Faruk, Avinno; Mahmood, Tanveer - In: South Asia economic journal : journal of the Institute … 23 (2022) 2, pp. 201-227

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Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

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Making the most of immigration in Canada

Carey, David - 2018

Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital, to reunite families and to respond to foreign crises and offer protection to endangered people. Economic-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far...

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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Market Structure and Racial Earnings: Evidence from Job-Changers

Agesa, Richard U.; Agesa, Jacqueline; Hoover, Gary A. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 169-173

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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

Lang, Kevin; Lehmann, Jee-Yeon K. - In: Journal of Economic Literature 50 (2012) 4, pp. 959-1006

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …

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Some Fiscal Calculus

Uhlig, Harald - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 30-34

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