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-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …
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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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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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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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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and social...
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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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"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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We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …
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on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early … earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after … receiving permanent status, earnings of immigrants rise relative to those of natives. Compositional effects due to selective …
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