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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
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analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic … observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while … Western female graduates seem to face a small wage penalty …
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Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …
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Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...
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The paper investigates the gender wage gap among recently graduated people, controlling for job and academic variables … and for the field of study, as women lag in highly remunerative majors. The raw gender gap in hourly wages is 5 … gender norms. Results indicate that childcare and part-time availability are correlated with lower gender wage gaps, while …
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters.When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for …
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Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
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