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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market : Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053443
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Gender Gaps and the Structure of Local Labor Markets
Petrongolo, Barbara - 2020
In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836583
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When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market
Pastore, Francesco - 2016
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001300
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136720
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Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918227
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career : Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079732
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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from … escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these widening gaps are largely explained by individual's endowments, mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086220
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The Association between Immigration and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano - 2015
captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012833
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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation : Earnings Premiums Among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Furtado, Delia - 2014
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043686