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Gender and racial wage gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence using a matching comparisons approach
Marques Garcia, Luana; Ñopo, Hugo; Salardi, Paola - 2009
This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278245
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Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317909
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Comparing teachers' assessments and national test results: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317940
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Relative status and satisfaction
Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315482
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Convergence to fair wage growth? Evidence from European countries on the link between productivity and real compensation growth, 1970-2017
Theodoropoulou, Sotiria - 2019
This paper examines two questions. First, whether and if so, to what extent real compensation growth has been systematically associated with labour productivity growth in the past five decades, once other factors determining real compensation growth have been taken into account. And secondly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565875
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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005
We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317899
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The influence of ancestral lifeways on individual economic outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2016
We explore the role of an individual's historical lineage in determining economic status, holding constant his or her current location. This is complementary to the more common approach to studying how history shapes economic outcomes across locations. Motivated by a large literature in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669320
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278233
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Gender and racial training gaps in Oregon apprenticeship programs
Berik, Günseli; Bilginsoy, Cihan; Williams, Larry S. - 2008
. Union programs deliver more training than nonunion programs, regardless of gender and race/ethnicity. Prior education level …This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288087
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Gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala from a matching comparisons perspective
Ñopo, Hugo; Gonzales, Alberto - 2008
This paper analyzes gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala for the period 2000-2006, applying a matching comparisons … technique, finding pronounced wage gaps along both gender and ethnic dimensions, the latter being greater. Wage gaps in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278214