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The Evolution of Gender Wage Differentials and Discrimination in Thailand: 1991-2007--An Application of Unconditional Quantile Regression
Adireksombat, Kampon; Fang, Zheng; Sakellariou, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
each year, most attributable to the wage structure effect (“discrimination”), and persistent sticky floors are documented …
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
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A Partner in Crime: Assortative Matching and Bias in the Crime Market
Gavrilova, Evelina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
partners differ. This difference in ability is correlated to observable characteristics, making the case for discrimination. By … discrimination. Beside the patterns of gender and racial segregation, I find that in white-black matches, blacks outperform whites …
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Social diversification, injustices, and Pareto optimality with non-binary preferences
Berdellima, Arian; Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We prove the existence of a Pareto optimal state of a finite society that has socially differentiated persons, each with non-binary personal preferences that quasi-order a finite set of alternatives. Everybody engages in a volitional act of choice by maximization of non-binary preferences. As a...
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Globalized markets, globalized information, and female employment: accounting for regional differences in 30 OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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Diagnoza postaw mieszkańców Białegostoku w zakresie tolerancji
Poleszczuk, Jan; Sztop-Rutkowska, Katarzyna; Kiszkiel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Celem projektu jest dostarczenie rzetelnej i praktycznej wiedzy z zakresu postaw mieszkańców Białegostoku w zakresie tolerancji. Podjęta diagnoza umożliwia kształtowanie polityki społecznej miasta w zakresie przeciwdziałania nietolerancji, jak również umożliwienie administracji...
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Male-Female Labor Market Participation and the Extent of Gender-Based Wage Discrimination in Turkey
Günalp, Burak; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Acar, Elif Öznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …. This differential has been attributed to labor market discrimination against women. Using data from 2003 and 2010 Household … measures the extent of pay discrimination in Turkey. To analyze the components of the earnings gap, two methodologies are …
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A Theory of Gender Wage Gap
Jellal, Mohamed; Nordman, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage determination. We demonstrate that more qualified women are then offered much lower wages than men at the equilibrium. This result is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according...
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Impact of trade in services on gender employment in India
Banga, Rashmi; Bansal, Renu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Trade in services has played a pivotal role in boosting economic growth of India. However, very few studies exist that trace its gender differential impacts. This study makes a pioneering attempt to estimate the impact of exports of services on gender employment in 46 sectors, which include 15...
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Women and Economic Emancipation in Eritrea – Some Observations
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The woman is considered to be a pillar of the society and a model of the unity. Indeed, woman plays a great role at home as well as at work. For example, 45 per cent of the measurable Gross Domestic Income comes from the work of women in the world’s richest countries. However, the women are...
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