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Spillover effects of black teachers on white teachers' racial competency : mixed methods evidence from North Carolina

Gershenson, Seth; Lindsay, Constance A.; Papageorge, … - 2023

The US teaching force remains disproportionately white while the student body grows more diverse. It is therefore important to understand how and under what conditions white teachers learn racial competency. This study applies a mixed-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black...

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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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Racial harassment, job satisfaction and intentions to quit : evidence from the British nursing profession

Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2000

This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more...

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The gender-career estimation gap

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations … empirical part analysis the respective self- and reciprocal estimation of female and male career prospects for public sector … that constitute a gender-career estimation gap. As the German public sector contains specific devices to equalising career …

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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012

contribution that combines the estimation of sets of high-dimensional fixed effects and Gelbach's (2009) unambiguous decomposition …

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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...

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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010

This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by Buchinsky (2001), which is based on a Newey (1991,...

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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013

This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...

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