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most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination … attention concerns the 'double' discrimination facing Roma women. Not only do Roma women face poorer employment and wage … outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst …
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an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …
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In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in … China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …
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earn more than blacks; why occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among …
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test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …. Speculations are offered on the intervening variables that mitigate the effect of Muslim gender norms on economic performance. …
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-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions. …
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