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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from … these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe is typically increasing …
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this … this is largely explained by a matching decline in ‘Oaxaca's discrimination,’ suggesting extraordinary improvement of women …
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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … selectivity bias correction procedure. Using information derived from the entrance equations, the decomposition procedure is then …
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addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In …Using a unique data source on academic economist labour market experiences, we explore gender, pay and promotions. In … contrast to the existing literature, we find both a gender promotions gap and a within-rank gender pay gap. A driving factor …
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spillovers"). Dealers use prices of other securities as a source of information. As prices of less liquid securities convey less … precise information, a drop in liquidity for one security raises the uncertainty for dealers in other securities, thereby … affecting their liquidity. The direction of liquidity spillovers is positive if the fraction of dealers with price information …
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