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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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Voting patterns and the gender wage gap
Adnan, Wifag; Miaari, Sami H. - 2018
Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, Israel's gender wage gap remains one of the highest among developed countries, despite a growing reverse...
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Are Asian migrants discriminated against in the labour market? : A case study of Australia
Junankar, Pramod N. (contributor); Paul, Satya (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant "unexplained differences" for males that may be ascribed to "discrimination" against Asian migrants. However, the …
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Bad karma or discrimination? : male-female wage gaps among salaried workers in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Goel, Deepti; Khanna, Shantanu - 2015
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387102
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The gender wage gap : does a gender gap in reservation wages play a part?
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2014
This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379936
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries … individual heterogeneity in better understanding immigrant wage effects. -- immigrants ; earnings ; quantile regression ; panel …
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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?
Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven - 2020
The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...
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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan's labor market
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Sinha, Nistha; … - 2016
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450099
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Beneath the surface : the decline in gender injury gap
Razzolini, Tiziano; Leombruni, Roberto; Mastrobuoni, … - 2013
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both gaps, as well as an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The...
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