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Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature

Liu, Xing; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories: Theory and Test

Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Sessions, John G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...

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The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?

Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This is the first study to use an achievement test score to analyze whether the income gap between second-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish citizen takes the test when turning 18, we are able to...

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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

inequality between permanent and contract workers, since contract workers earn substantially lower wages than their counterpart …

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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages: An Empirical Investigation

Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel … height effects on wages are curvilinear. During the considered period from 1985 to 2004 we observe a slightly nonlinear … falling trend. After controlling for time effects a nonlinear relationship between individual height and wages remains with a …

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The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?

Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Mahlstedt, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full … factors. Our results suggest that the gender wage gap disappears once we control for reservation wages. We also find a close …

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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …

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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

beauty on wages leads to smaller beauty premium for women. …. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more … premium for women at the bottom of the wage distribution. However, most of this is explained by the fact that attractive women …

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