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ranging from a contestable labor market to a simple universal unemployment benefit. The credibility of any such target …
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This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiation partners are specified a priori, and thus it is impossible to address the question of how they achieve and retain their negotiating positions, on which their...
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-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish …
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Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper explores occupational choices when individuals receive imprecise signals regarding ability and use the...
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-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially … operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with commitments made by large firms to …
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers’ taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
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interpretation in terms of a certain degree of occupational segregation, rather than mere wage discrimination. …
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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …
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implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …
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maximum below the average height for females and above the average for males. We detect endowment and discrimination … influences. The latter are firstly due to employer discrimination and secondarily less likely due to customer discrimination. …
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