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immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially … affects the labor force participation of men and women. Women who exhibit the integrated identity are more likely to work than …
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). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
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workers; and (iv) that among homosexual workers the gender gap is not observed. From this we conclude that the Dutch labor … market does not discriminate on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender in entry level jobs. …
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could find employment and thus accumulate work experience. …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of …
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determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important …
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