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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...

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Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands

Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine whether sexual preferences affect earnings … their heterosexual female coworkers; (iii) that in terms of earnings, bisexual workers are more comparable to heterosexual …

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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...

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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries

Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...

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Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist

Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.

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"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe

O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...

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Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Polachek, Solomon William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one’s life; why earnings … questions based on research emanating from Mincer’s original earnings function specification. …

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Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings

Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Gay/bisexual workers tend to earn less than other men. Does this occur because of discrimination or because of selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out discrimination effects from selection effects. Using a large sample...

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Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001

Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main issues, firstly the extent to which the employment position of the main ethnic minority groups...

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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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