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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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Size matters!: body height and labor market discrimination : a cross-European analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - 2009
explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the …
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Immediate Manager Gender and Female Wages - The Importance of Manager Position
Halldén, Karin; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Rosen, Asa - 2016
One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas; Bosmans, Kristof; Riedl, Arno - 2020
, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179857
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020
, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842672
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Innovation Contests
Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352434
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Gender, Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance
Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017
implication of our findings is that discrimination in the capital market spills over to the labour market, leading to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615908
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Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Gousse, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2018
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872043
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277092