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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …

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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Drydakis, Nick - 2017

Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...

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Reflections on wage-setting

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental …

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Social identity and labor market outcomes of internal migrant workers

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - This version: January 9, 2024

Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable estimation and careful robustness checks suggest that identifying …

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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...

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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …

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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics

Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2019

Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment

Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017

unemployment rates, whilst also receiving lower earnings, as compared to men. …

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