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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates … manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- Firm survival ; profitability …
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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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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards
Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...
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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020
pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …
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What drives the gender wage gap? : examining the roles of sorting, productivity differences, and discrimination
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven; Fabling, Richard - 2017
inconsistent with statistical discrimination being an important explanatory factor for the remaining differences in wages. Relating … product market and labor market competition, we find evidence that is consistent with taste discrimination being important for …
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Informed choices: gender gaps in career advice
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature
Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination: experimental evidence from basic information treatments
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022
economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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What happens when employers can no longer discriminate in job ads?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2021
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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