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a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First … the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … have lower preferences than men for risk and competition and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender differences … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …
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differences in men and women's pay and employment opportunities can be explained by discrimination or by differences in their …
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a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First … the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598727
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …
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stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology … may have benefited the most productive firms more and the growth of competition may at the same time have stimulated the …
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The effect of marriage on productivity and, consequently, wages has been long debated in economics. A primary explanation for the impact of marriage on wages has been through its impact on productivity, however, there has been no direct evidence for this. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap...
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The randomized controlled trial (RCT) has been a heavily utilized research tool in medicine for over 60 years. Since the early 2000's, large-scale RCTs have been used in increasingly large numbers in the social sciences to evaluate questions of both policy and theory. The early economics...
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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior …
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We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) from age 15 to 16 in...
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