Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 690
Cover Image
Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662001
Cover Image
Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459767
Cover Image
Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792497
Cover Image
Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661532
Cover Image
Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain
de la Rica, Sara; Dolado, Juan J.; Vegas, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554226
Cover Image
The Distribution of Earnings under Monopsonistic/polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François; Toulemonde, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers’ decisions to work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611011
Cover Image
Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model
Bowlus, Audra J; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
the earnings distributions differently, empirical identification of these potential sources for the explanation of wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067440
Cover Image
The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Since monetary union with West Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage points … relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792446
Cover Image
Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791764
Cover Image
Outside Offers and the Gender Pay Gap: Empirical Evidence from the UK
Blackaby, David; Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … discrimination and also outside job applications correlate with an individual receiving earnings below that expected, given their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656428