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The gender income gap and the influence of family formation reconsidered
Ochsenfeld, Fabian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In her recent study Bobbitt-Zeher (2007) takes on the important task of identifying the contribution of educational factors relative to non-educational factors in the making of the gender income gap among the college-educated and finds that “family formation has virtually no effect on the...
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Women and happiness
Matteucci, Nicola; Vieira Lima, Sabrina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling evidence stands out both synchronically and diachronically. Further, this analysis is completed by an interdisciplinary review of competing perspectives, mostly from psychology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110635
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Female Labour Supply and intergenerational preference formation: Evidence for Mexico
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Velez, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a national representative sample for Mexico, we analyse the effect of a husband having a working mother on the probability that he has a working wife. Our results show that labour force participation by a husband’s mother increases the probability of the labour force participation of his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258713
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Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
opportunities and discrimination? Chapter 3 investigates the effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111800
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Business Practices of Wal-Mart in Northwest Indiana
Rao, Surekha; O'Dell, CYnthia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Wal-Mart symbolizes the strength of economic and commercial activity in any region. Wal-Mart has built a business empire on its low-cost model. Customers love Wal-Mart stores for its low prices. At the same time, Wal-Mart is under a barrage of criticism for labor practices and indirect burdens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790271
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258621
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Earnings differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals and the effects of anti-discriminatory laws: equal but still unmarried
Christafore, David; Leguizamon, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation have been adopted by many states to counteract perceived … discrimination in the labor market. We �find that relative to married heterosexual men, homosexual men earn less and anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261066
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Employer recruitment preferences and discrimination: a stated preference experiment
Mc Quaid, Ronald; Bergmann, Ariel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
discrimination. This paper applies stated preference methods to identifying employer preferences to three sets of characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021720
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Fidelity Networks and Long-Run Trends in HIV/AIDS Gender Gaps
Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
More than half of the HIV/AIDS-infected population today are women. We study a dynamic model of (in)fidelity, which explains the HIV/AIDS gender gap by the configuration of sexual networks. Each individual desires sexual relationships with opposite sex individuals. Two Markov matching processes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110508
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Public-private sector wage differentials in Spain. An updated picture in the midst of the Great Recession.
Antón, José-Ignacio; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using the recent Wage Structure Survey 2010, this article examines the public-private sector wage gaps in Spain across the whole earnings distribution and the incidence of the gender gap in both sectors of the economy. Firstly, we find that that there is positive wage premium to public sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257709