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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472903
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
In the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial history, its labour market is characterized by two about equal sized majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay...
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Gender-based educational and occupational segregation in the Caribbean
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
This study analyzes the evolution of gender-based educational and occupational segregation, from 1999 to 2016, for four Caribbean countries (The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago). The focus is on the role of educational segregation in explaining occupational segregation. There...
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Glass ceiling in research : evidence from a national program in Uruguay : prepared for the Institutions for Development Department
Bukstein, Daniel; Gandelman, Néstor - 2017
This paper presents evidence that female researchers have 7.1 percentage points lower probability of being accepted into the largest national research support program in Uruguay than male researchers. They also have lower research productivity than their male counterparts. Differences in...
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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Hernández, Hugo - 2022
We conducted a paired correspondence experiment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to measure the extent of labor market discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise observationally equivalent individuals who differed in a single...
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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...
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Exploring gender discrimination : a multi-trial field experiment in urban Ecuador
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Duryea, Suzanne; Paredes, Jorge - 2024
In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field experiment with 392 recruiters evaluating observationally...
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Inmigración en Panamá : ¿complemento o sustituto?
Székely, Miguel; Linares, Jennifer - 2018
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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020
impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …
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Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria : the role of literacy skills
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp - 2017
This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three...
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