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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature
Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413089
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346565
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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices
Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization choices. Conditioning on personal, economic, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649363
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Endophilia or exophobia : beyond discrimination
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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Career or flexible work arrangements? : gender differences in self-employment in a young market economy
Buttler, Dominik; Sierminska, Eva - 2019
We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119559
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The flipside of comparative payment schemes
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013
Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651717
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666016
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Wealth distribution within couples
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195489
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Age, cohort and co-authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477885