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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004
We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408369
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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition
Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001
-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap … sets from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are used to provide such detailed gender wage gap decomposition. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556832
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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062414
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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness
Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076544
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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125740
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An Equilibrium Search Model with Co-Worker Discrimination
Sasaki, Masaru - EconWPA - 1998
This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and females using a search model. In the presence of asymmetric co- worker discrimination, no female-dominated firm emerges in the labor market. An increase in female participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125794
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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making
Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
This paper introduces a psychological notion of categorization into economics and derives its implications for economic decision making. We show, using a tractable model of social cognition, that a decision maker in (efficiently) assigning past experiences to categories, will sort experiences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135029
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Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?
Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2004
We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407632
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Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away?
Kevane, Michael; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2003
In much of the developing world daughters receive lower education and other investments than do their brothers, and may even be so devalued as to suffer differential mortality. Daughter disadvantage may be due in part to social norms that prescribe that daughters move away from their natal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407654