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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002084599
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Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay
Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446109
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294532
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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...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153565
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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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