unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

evidence shows that labor institutions reduce the dispersion of earnings and income inequality, which alters incentives, but … finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six … years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …