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economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their … representative German university, to investigate whether - even for such a homogeneous group of labor market entrants - a gender gap … major part of this gap remains unexplained by gender differences in observable characteristics. …
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economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their … representative German university, to investigate whether – even for such a homogeneous group of labor market entrants – a gender gap … major part of this gap remains unexplained by gender differences in observable characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691998
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
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conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …
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According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509366
conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509378
The standard model of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market suggests that a positive tax rate on minimum wage income is Pareto inefficient. However, most countries with minimum wage legislation exhibit a positive tax rate on minimum wage income. We solve this...
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occupational injuries. It is therefore remarkable that almost all studies analyzing the gender wage gap have disregarded different … occupational injury risks as a potential explanatory variable for observed gender wage differentials. By merging data on … occupational injury risks to German and US panel data on individual workers, this study analyzes gender wage differentials in …
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gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We find that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …
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to a reduction in the gender pay gap. I find women receive lower returns to interactive tasks, even within occupations … interactive tasks thus do not appear to pay off financially. …
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