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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Janssen, Simon - 2014
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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Earnings Discrimination in the Workplace
Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082390
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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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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps:An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862584
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Attitudes Towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap
Le, Anh T. - 2010
This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are much more risk averse than males. It then extends...
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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Mind the Gap : A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - 2011
Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...
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The Trend Over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Mussida, Chiara - 2011
We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of flexible and atypical contracts; the female employment rates and educational levels have substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120835
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Roma Women in Athenian Firms : Do They Face Wage Bias?
Drydakis, Nick - 2011
discrimination of minority women in the labor market. In addition, a better means of assessing workers' skill may contribute to the … reduction of wage discrimination, as well as, greater educational achievement would significantly boost the economic status of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124477