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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...
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Misallocation of human capital across sectors can have substantial negative implications for aggregate output. So far …, the literature examining this type of labor misallocation has assumed a Cobb-Douglas production function. Our paper … substitutable than Cobb-Douglas assumes. Our counterfactual results indicate that human capital misallocation can explain …
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We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … difference between white and Somali American applicants increased by 8 percentage points. The increased discrimination … 2018 to test for seasonality in discrimination; there was no substantial increase in discrimination after the 2017 election. …
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Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …
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respondents' preference for this form of discrimination. …
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in the face of anti-discrimination policies represents a cause for concern and indicates the need for comprehensive …
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Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however …, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of burnout syndrome: promotion discrimination. To … as potential mediators of promotion discrimination. Estimates reveal that compared to employees without an employment …
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what extent minority groups face hiring discrimination. Past meta-studies have charted parts of the discrimination … of correspondence experiments on hiring discrimination published between 2005 and 2020. Using a random-effects model, we … computed pooled discrimination ratios concerning a total of ten discrimination grounds upon which unequal treatment in hiring …
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