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Gender Discrimination and Emigration: Push Factor Versus Screening Process Hypothesis

Baudassé, Thierry; Bazillier, Rémi - HAL - 2011

gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can … discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination … reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is that gender discrimination may create a " gender bias " in the …

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How can gender discrimination explain fertility behaviors and family-friendly policies?

Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2011

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with … services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination if the quality of childcare services is sufficiently high. In the decreasing part of this U …

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Language Skills and Homophilous Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from Gender-and Racially-Differentiated Applications

Edo, Anthony; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Yannelis, Constantine - HAL - 2013

applicants and female recruiters are more likely to call back women. The paper also directly tests for statistical discrimination …

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Job Satisfaction and Quits

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Simonnet, … - HAL - 2007

We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is...

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Reported job satisfaction : What does it mean?

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - HAL - 2004

We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present,...

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Financial development, entrepreneurship and job satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2008

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738704

Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Job satisfaction and co-worker wages: Status or signal?

Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - HAL - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

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Wage Comparisons in and out of the Firm. Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee French Database

Godechot, Olivier; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2013

relative position in the firm. This signal effect is stronger for young people and for women. These findings are based on …

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