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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness

Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003

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Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia; Stevens, David - EconWPA - 1996

We utilize a large establishment-level panel dataset to explore the links between gross job flows and gross worker flows. Our findings have relevance for models of job creation and job destruction, and labour reallocation. We find churning flows (the difference between worker and job flows at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125739

Decomposing productivity and wage effects of intraestablishment labor restructuring

Maliranta, Mika; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

Aggregate productivity growth can be decomposed into growth within establishments, between establishments, and the impact of entering and exiting establishments. We demonstrate that such a productivity decomposition formula can also be used for studying intraestablishment restructuring through...

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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making

Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

smaller (minority) groups. We then apply the model to understand simple forms of discrimination and social identity. It is … shown that discrimination in hiring can result from such cognitive processes even when there is no malevolent taste to do so …

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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 … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …

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Educational mismatch of disadvantaged groups in the labour

Blázquez, Maite; Malo, Miguel Angle - EconWPA - 2004

mismatch in a broad sense towards a better match, and a higher probability of employment mobility towards inactivity or …

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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

discrimination that builds on the work of S. Lundberg and R. Startz and incorporates differences in the cost of acquiring an …

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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 … Moreover, an increase in the degree of discrimination by males results in gains to them in terms of higher wages and lower …

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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...

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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...

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