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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions

Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....

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Tax Reform, Targeting and the Tax Burden on Women

Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In the early 1980’s Australia had a highly progressive, individual based income tax and families received support for dependent children in the form of universal family allowances. The introduction of income tests for child support payments based on family income (now in the form of Family Tax...

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Gender and Competition

Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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The Glass Ceiling in Europe: Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?

Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

extent to which these stylised facts are due to policies and institutions, discrimination, to other unobservable factors, or …

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Determinants of the Employment Status of Indigenous Australians: The Role of Crime.

Borland, J.; Hunter, B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

This study examines the determinants of the employment status of Indigenous Australians using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey.

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Clark, Deborah A. Cobb; Antecol, Heather - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday … commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report that they or their families have experienced racial discrimination … in finding non-government housing or in patronizing businesses in their local communities. Discrimination is related to a …

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Trends in the Australian Gender Wage Differential over the 1980's: Some Evidence on the Effectiveness of Economic Reform.

Kidd, M.P.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Inequality.

Richardson, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

The social sciences in Australia heve been vey active in decribing, measuring, debating and seeking to understand inequality. This essay assesses how the social sciences have gone abour this research task, thier main conclusions and what we still do not know.

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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: Is there Monopsony Down-under?

Booth, Alison L; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest because of its relevance to the debate about the competitiveness of labour...

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