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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472903
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Gender differences in output quality and quantity under competition and time constraints: evidence from a pilot study
Shurchkov, Olga - 2009 - Current version: February 2009
Gender gaps in income and level of position in the workplace are widespread. One explanation for this inequality is that the genders perform differently under competitive conditions, as previous experimental studies have found a significant gender gap in competitive tasks that are perceived to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824516
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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2012
We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other … sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142374
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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill. Extended version
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2015
We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in … the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142379
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Measuring racial bias in employment services in Colombia
Duryea, Suzanne; Millán-Quijano, Jaime; Morrison, Judith; … - 2024
In this paper, we document de facto, implicit, and explicit racial biases within the public employment service in Colombia. By combining administrative data about job seekers and job openings with direct surveys to job counselors, including a Race Implicit Association Test, we compute different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529852
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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are employed. The communist regimes had highly regulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607922
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Gender disparities in valuing remote and hybrid work in Latin America
Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz Magdalena; Piras, … - 2024
This study sheds light on the growing trend and gender dynamics of workplace flexibility in Latin America, underscoring the importance of remote work options in the region's labor market. We explore gender differences in willingness to pay (WTP) for remote work arrangements in Latin America,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529926
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Discrimination in promotion
Prummer, Anja - 2020
explanation for this pattern, namely preference- and belief-free discrimination. In our setting, an employer can increase effort … discrimination between workers optimal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243271
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Gender & collaboration
Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; Prummer, Anja - 2018
more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812175
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The evolution of gender gaps in industrialized countries
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413267