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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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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
competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong …
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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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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010
Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669
I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and recentered influence function regression methods. As the baby boom generation has moved toward the latter part of their career, earnings distribution statistics for the working age...
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Firm-Size and Inter-hierarchy Wage Dispersion in Shanghai
Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2159-2166
For a sample of Shanghai firms, we find that while larger firms pay lower wages, managers in larger firms still receive … higher wages. There are two reasons for this result. The wage gap between managers and non-managers is positively correlated …
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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
This study examines linkages between the export participation of firms and employee benefits in terms of wages and … participation by firms in Vietnam has a positive impact on wages when taking into account firm characteristics alone. However, the … negative effect on employment quality. Nevertheless, the impact of export participation on both wages and employment quality …
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The public sector pay premium, compensating differentials and unions: propensity score matching evidence from Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States
Gibson, John - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 2325-2332
Propensity score matching is used to estimate the size of the public sector pay premium in four countries. Three sets of matching covariates are used; worker characteristics only, then including job attributes and finally adding union membership. When worker characteristics and job attributes are...
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Reexamining the Economics of Marital Infidelity
Potter, Joel - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 41-52
This study utilizes data from the National Youth Survey to reevaluate key conclusions made by Fair (1978). While Fair (1978) used data collected from mail-in surveys, the National Youth Survey was collected using standard probability techniques. This paper also extends Fair (1978), by including...
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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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