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Betting on diversity : occupational segregation and gender stereotypes
Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022
Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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Tenure and experience effects on wages : a theory
Burdett, Kenneth; Coles, Melvyn Glyn - 2010
This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts. Workers accumulate general human capital through...
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Wage formation under low inflation
Holden, Steinar - 2004
This paper reviews the literature on the effects of low steady-state inflation on wage formation, focusing on four different effects. First, under low inflation, downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) may prevent real wage cuts that would have happened had inflation been higher. Second, wages...
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The wage fund theory and the gains from trade in a dynamic Ricardian model
Marjit, Sugata; Nakanishi, Noritsugu - 2021
This paper explores the role of wage fund as the basic source of credit, capital or finance in a dynamic Ricardian model, which consists of three classes of agents: the workers, the capitalist, and the producers of goods. We introduce and develop an elaborate dynamic wage fund model in the...
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Fair pay and a wagebill argument for wage rigidity and excessive employment variability
Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2000
This paper considers a two-period optimal contracting model in which firms make new hires in the second period subject to the constraint that they cannot pay discriminate either against or in favour of the new hires. Under an assumption on the information available to workers, it is shown that...
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Vacancy durations and entry wages : evidence from linked vacancy-employer-employee data
Kettemann, Andreas; Müller, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018
This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that...
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Racial discrimination in local public services : a field experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination : experimental evidence from basic information treatments
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022
economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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Discrimination at young age : experimental evidence from preschool children
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018
Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a …-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …, since they allocate more than half of their endowment to the in-group. The extent of discrimination does not differ between …
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