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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for … to the fact that teachers’ salaries are generally high in Switzerland - teachers here enjoy a positive wage differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703659
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Romania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822198
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A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages
Guardado, José R.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In contrast, in our model, workers make individual safety investments that reduce the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666574
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
contribution that combines the estimation of sets of high-dimensional fixed effects and Gelbach's (2009) unambiguous decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959522
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The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
Kaiser, Lutz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959548
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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959773
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959809
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541271
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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
Baert, Stijn; Decuypere, Lynn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed by emotional stability, are important drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271977
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
Blau, Francine D.; Brummund, Peter; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279303