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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market : Distastes or Uncertainty?
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
current results indicate that discrimination against sexual orientation minorities in the Cypriot labour market is a matter of … disentangle statistical from taste-based discrimination in the labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104066
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What Do Field Experiments of Discrimination in Markets Tell Us? A Meta Analysis of Studies Conducted Since 2000
Rich, Judith - 2014
Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were …-Americans in US housing remained significant. Higher prices were quoted to minority applicants buying products. More information …
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market Against Gay Men
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087539
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Earnings Over the Lifecycle:The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings aredistributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as hisstudents and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching importantconclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861361
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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status ofEthnic Minorities in Britain
Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependenceon social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issueswith significant policy consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861430
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Comparative Advantage or Discrimination?Studying Male-Female Wage DifferentialsUsing Displaced Workers
Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men andwomen. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. Thehypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatoryfirms by Black (1995) and an opportunity cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861855
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Assessing the Importance of Male and FemalePart-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, andworkplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men andwomen in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male fulltimers,male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862315
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market:The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at thesame time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on thetransitional labor market in the Netherlands, in particular for workers from the four largestimmigrant groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862587
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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134642
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136716