We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining … information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The … acceptance of gender inequality than in branches located in regions with a lower acceptance. The results are similar for …

This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various … countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender wage gapâ one of the most important measures of gender …

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …

important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term …

-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP …This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance … gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job …

-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …

We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital … market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages … and employment in labor markets. However, the effects of discrimination against minority labor on transactions in markets …

, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is … larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A …

-term perspective of decentralized institutional change in which gender-biased inheritance systems emerged as a defensive measure to …