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Does economics make you sexist
Paserman, Marco Daniele; Pino, Francisco; Paredes, Valentina - 2020
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Do race-based preferences perpetuate discrimination against marginalized ethnic groups?
Wydick, Bruce - In: Journal of Developing Areas 42 (2008) 1, pp. 165-181
preferential policies in college admissions are likely to lead to statistical discrimination by future employers, reducing the …
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Sexual harassment in the workplace : despite being illegal, costly, and an affront to dignity, sexual harassment is pervasive and challenging to eliminate
Hersch, Joni - 2015
Workplace sexual harassment is internationally condemned as sex discrimination and a violation of human rights, and …
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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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The impact of female managers on the gender pay gap: Evidence from linked employer–employee data for Germany
Hirsch, Boris - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 348-350
We find that increasing the female share in first-level management by 10% points decreases the unexplained within-job gender pay gap by 0.5 log points. The effect is more pronounced for the female share in second-level than in first-level management.
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Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination in Europe: Homosexuality and Physical Appearance
Patacchini, Eleonora; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583195
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When should I quit? Gender differences in exiting competitions
Hogarth, Robin M.; Karelaia, Natalia; Trujillo, Carlos … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 136-150
game show where participants were self-selected and there were no gender-specific constraints or discrimination. In …
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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 32-40
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011077478
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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083423