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Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1618-1624
Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay...
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Do white NBA players suffer from reverse discrimination?
Ajilore, Olugbenga - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 1, pp. 558-566
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been fertile ground for the study of discrimination due to demographic and cultural shifts in not only the teams but also the fan populace. The early research found evidence of black-white wage differentials and customer discrimination (Kahn and...
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Individual and institutional determinants of the male female wage gap among U.S. economics faculty
Cherry, Todd L; Durden, Garey C.; Gaynor, Patricia E. - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 245-254
This paper provides new evidence on the male female wage gap in academia. Using unique data from the economics discipline, we estimate a human-capital based model to explore the nature of wage differentials among male and female economics professors. Results indicate the salary gap varies across...
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Firm Exporting and Employee Benefits: First Evidence from Vietnam Manufacturing SMEs
Vu, Huong; Lim, Steven; Holmes, Mark; Doan, Tinh - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 519-535
participation by firms in Vietnam has a positive impact on wages when taking into account firm characteristics alone. However, the …
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Do minimum wage increases cause inflation? evidence from vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 9-9
minimum wage increases on inflation in Vietnam during the 1994-2008 period. Inflation is measured by a monthly overall …
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The returns to schooling in vietnam during economic transition: does rate of returns to schooling reach its peak?
Doan, Tinh Thanh; Gibson, John K - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 15-15
. Existing research suggests that Vietnam is not an exception to this pattern. However, the rate of return in period from 1992 to … the earnings equations. The low returns may result from the gradual economic reforms applied in Vietnam, whilst in Eastern … European countries the “Big Bang” transformation was conducted. Therefore to see whether the return to schooling in Vietnam is …
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Education and wage inequality in Europe
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2620-2628
In this paper we apply a quantile regression (QR) approach to the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in eight European countries. Our results corroborate the positive relation between wage increase and education and it holds true across the...
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Estimating the Gender Pay Gap in the Managerial and non Managerial Italian Labor Market
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1846-1856
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate the existence of a stronger gender discrimination when the job position is higher, splitting the Italian labor market into managers and non managers. Once the threefold selection biases for the two genders are accounted for...
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Sexual orientation and occupational rank
Ahmed, Ali M; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2422-2433
This paper presents a study of differences in occupational rank between gay and heterosexual males as well as between lesbian and heterosexual females. We estimate different specifications of an ordered probit model on register data from Sweden. Our data consist of married heterosexual men and...
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Cognitive ability, stereotypes and gender segregation in the workplace
Lubian, Diego; Untertrifaller, Anna - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 1268-1282
We carried out a survey among undergraduate students to investigate the role of gender stereotyping in the perception of female work and its consequences in terms of wage discrimination. Traditional female-oriented and male-oriented jobs are evaluated in terms of compensatory factors related to...
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