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in income or labor market outcomes after college. We do not find significant effects on women. …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … smaller firm sizes are found to attenuate wage discrimination against foreigners, but not against women. …
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the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers' wages. It also investigates whether results vary along the … manufacturing industry for the period 2002-2010, show that workers earn significantly higher wages when employed in more upstream … estimates suggest that male top-earners are the main beneficiaries, whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be …
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Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts involved metrics that eliminate most of the economically relevant distances among different countries...
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This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …. Our results indicate that school quality is an important predictor of and positively associated to future wages for Whites …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across …
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Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role of gender for the relation between the incidence/duration of parental leave and earnings after...
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...
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This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full … factors. Our results suggest that the gender wage gap disappears once we control for reservation wages. We also find a close …
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...
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Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
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