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This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace …. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their … research evidence on earnings discrimination as one source of earnings inequality within the workplace. The ability of …
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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 results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their … discrimination and occupational sorting play a minimal role at best. Wage penalties, on the other hand, are largely explained by … discrimination. Interestingly, while we do find there are some differences in the relative roles of our three alternative …
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We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage...
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination. We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and thegeneral absence of...
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Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, despite growing evidence of their wage-setting...
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We examine heterogeneous rent-sharing in New Zealand using LEED data. Using a refined measures of quasi-rents per worker, we find that 20% to 30% of workers are in zero-excess-rent firms - disproportionately women, Māori or Pacific peoples, low-qualified workers, and those in hospitality, admin...
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This paper investigates the roots of labour market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between body fat … controlled for) are due to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) or statistical discrimination. Our main contribution is to … examine how these two types of discrimination hinge on a wide range of obese individuals' specific job and occupational …
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