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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098047
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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott; van der Leij, Marco; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326543
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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
Albrecht, James; van Vuuren, Aico; Vroman, Susan - 2004
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work full time in the Nether-lands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands isquite low, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325227
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325588
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - 1997
make observed wages moredependent on these factors. The extent to which human capital factors influence wages can be viewed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324560
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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - 2004
The authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personalityaffected the earnings of a … significant positiveor negative earnings effects, and together they appear to have had effects comparable to those commonlyfound … for cognitive ability. Among men, substantial earnings advantages were associatedwith antagonism (the obverse of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325321
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Discrimination in the Labor Market : The Curse of Competition between Workers
de Haan, Thomas - 2015
In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers' beliefs about workers' behavior induce different groups of workers to invest at different rates in their education. Thus, even though groups may be identical ex-ante, the beliefs of the employers are self-fulfilling....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037417
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Gender Differences in Private and Public Goal Setting
Brandts, Jordi; El Baroudi, Sabrine; Huber, Stefanie; … - 2022
We conduct a field and an online classroom experiment to study gender differences in self-set performance goals and their effects on performance in a real-effort task. We distinguish between public and private goals, performance being public and identifiable in both cases. Participants set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356464
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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2008
Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325852
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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, the Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2008
Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220891