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Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008

Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of …

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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants: 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Assortative mating and divorce: evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016

2010 was noticeably higher at the top. We then survey the literature to identify what has been learned about the … experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …

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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 - 2012

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ?discrimination?, whether …

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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

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661487