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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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Disability-based labour market inequalities
Pettinicchio, David; Maroto, Michelle - 2024
Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054234
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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273688
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Gender segregation in the workplace and wage gaps: Evidence from urban Mexico 1994 - 2004
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278216
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Employer discrimination and the immutability of ethnic hierarchies: A field experiment
Vernby, Kåre; Dancygier, Rafaela M. - 2018
affect their employment chances - by adopting citizenship, acquiring work experience, or signaling religious practice - or … whether fixed traits such as country of birth or gender are more consequential. We find no evidence that immigrants can affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039298
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State, difference, and diversity: toward a path of expanded democracy and gender equality
Antonopoulos, Rania; Cos-Montiel, Francisco - 2007
gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual … understanding of gender-based asymmetries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266624
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College achievement and earnings
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
I study the size and sources of the monetary return to college achievement as measured by cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA). I first present evidence that the return to achievement is large and statistically significant. I find, however, that this masks variation in the return across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321418
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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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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294523
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294525