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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination - evidence from the lab

Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2020

If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before choosing whom to hire, they receive information...

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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital

Woessmann, Ludger - 2024

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...

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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...

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Wage gaps between native and migrant graduates of higher education institutions in the Netherlands

Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2015

In the Netherlands the share of immigrants in the total population has steadily increased in recent decades. The present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are equally educated. This reduces potential skills biases in our analysis. We apply a Mincer equation...

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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry

Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …

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Gender gaps in primary school achievement : a decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schils, Trudie - 2014

In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...

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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …

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La Meglio Gioventù : earnings gaps across generations and skills in Italy

Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - 2014

This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, 1975-1979). We explore the average trends and disentangle how the patterns vary according to...

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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources

Antman, Francisca M. - 2015

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...

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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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