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An Empirical Test of the Reder Hypothesis
Ludsteck, Johannes; Haupt, Harald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards in response to changes in market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187285
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An Empirical Test of Reder Competition and Specific Human Capital Against Standard Wage Competition
Ludsteck, Johannes; Haupt, Harry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards has been emphasized in a classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187294
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Job Rents in a Stylized Labor Market
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Wage formation is often analyzed by assuming that wage differentials reflect productivity differentials intrinsic to the workers, like differences in skill or qualification. Observed industry and firm effects on wages suggests, however, that wage differentials may result from causes rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620611
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A Theory of Gender Wage Gap
Jellal, Mohamed; Nordman, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015594
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The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in Greece
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Livanos, Ilias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
graduates contributes to the gender pay gap in Greece. The case of Greece is interesting as it is an EU country with … historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and one of the highest levels of occupational gender segregation among OECD … returns to academic disciplines are firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619724
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Do services reduce gender inequality in labor markets? The service sector, knnowledge-intensive services and the gender pay gap
Dueñas, Diego; Iglesias, Carlos; Llorente, Raquel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
important factors that can improve employment opportunities for women, reducing labor by gender differences. The objective of … ICTs such as Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) are changing some of the basics of labor gender differences. To do it: a …
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Brecha Salarial en Uruguay
Borraz, Fernando; Robano, Cecilia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
(2009) to analyze the gender wage gap in Uruguay. The wage gap is increasing the upper part suggesting a glass ceiling in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777072
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Gender, Time Use, and Labor Income in Guinea: Micro and Macro Analyses
Osorio, Parra; Carlos, Juan; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
. Substantial research has been done using microeconomic household survey data on gender disparities in labor incomes in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836748
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Oferta de Trabajo en la República Dominicana: Tendencias y Determinantes
Ramirez, Francisco A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper documents recent trends of the labor supply in the Dominican Republic, and inquire about factor explaining its behavior. Entails an empirical analysis of labor supply phenomena both from a point of view of participation rate and the hours dedicated to labor market. Using information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111675
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Exclusion and Discrimination as Sources of Inter-Ethnic Inequality in Peru
Barron, Manuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
According to the 2003 National Household Survey, mean labour income for an indigenous worker is only 56% of that for a non-indigenous worker. Studies of ethnic discrimination in Peru’s labour markets generally find that discrimination is too low to explain inequalities of this magnitude....
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