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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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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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Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets
Petrongolo, Barbara; Ronchi, Maddalena - 2020
In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201739
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Just like a woman? : new domparative evidence on the gender income gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained. In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863847
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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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Immigrant overeducation across generations : the role of gender and part-time work
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity within and between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna - 2009
-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153175
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Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918227
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The return to hours worked within and across occupations: implications for the gender wage gap
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Lefgren, Lars; … - 2021
Prior research suggests that gender differences in hours worked play an important role in the gender pay gap. Yet common estimates of the wage returns to hours worked are close to zero, implying that hours differences cannot account much for the gender wage gap, even though men work more hours...
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Occupational gender composition and wages in Sweden
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2000
We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the...
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