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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014
gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529440
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …
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Biology and gender in the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016
Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594118
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
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The role of labor market institutions in the impact of immigration on wages and employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...
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Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation : the role of gender and ethnicity
Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014
-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463408
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Gender homophily in referral networks : consequences for the medicare physician earnings gap
Zeltzer, Dan - 2017
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians …' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient … referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily …
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