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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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Is there a penalty for becoming a woman? : is there a premium for becoming a man? ; evidence from a sample of transsexual workers
Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...
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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014
Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Do women ask?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2016
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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Why are there so few women in executive positions? : an analysis of gender differences in the life-cycle of executive employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy - 2015
positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of … executive employment, which allows for a full characterization of the gender composition of executive management. We establish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472498
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The timing of preference and prejudice in sequential hiring games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - 2014
even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …
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"As rare as a panda" : how facial attractiveness, gender, and occupation affect interview callbacks at Chinese firms
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Lei, Lei - 2014
This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in …
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