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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap
Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267730
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Do field experiments on labor and housing markets overstate discrimination? : re-examination of the evidence
Neumark, David; Rich, Judith - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493983
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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/10010274663
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008684809
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Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703239
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Market forces and sex discrimination
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000649957
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Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring
Burn, Ian; Button, Patrick; Munguia Corella, Luis; … - 2020
discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a … age discrimination in hiring. The methods we develop provide a framework for applied researchers analyzing textual data … related to stereotypes of older workers sometimes predicts discrimination against older workers. For men, our evidence points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270184
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703815
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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/10008696860
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Inequality at work : the effect of peer salaries on job satisfaction
Card, David E.; Mas, Alexandre; Moretti, Enrico; Saez, … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008666974