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implication of our findings is that discrimination in the capital market spills over to the labour market, leading to the …
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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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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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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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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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or productivity, a discrimination equilibrium exists in which a group of majority workers are paid higher wages than a … group of minority workers. Third, minimum wages can reduce such discrimination and increase employment. We discuss how these …
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or productivity, a discrimination equilibrium exists in which a group of majority workers are paid higher wages than a … group of minority workers. Third, minimum wages can reduce such discrimination and increase employment. We discuss how these …
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...
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