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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy
Vogt, Carsten; Sturm, Bodo - 2011
In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players' benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306006
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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy
Vogt, Carsten; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players' benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283657
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Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? Evidence from Austria
Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021
We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654279
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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions
Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2006
Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297528
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Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2009
This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299498
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299688
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Idiosyncratic risk and the cost of capital: The case of electricity networks
Schober, Dominik; Schäffler, Stephan; Weber, Christoph - 2014
all firms. This will lead to implicit discrimination. We combine models of firm-specific risk, liquidity management and … monopolistic bottlenecks should take these risks into account to avoid implicit discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330308
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Imitation perfection: A simple rule to prevent discrimination in procurement
Mass, Helene; Fugger, Nicolas; Gretschko, Vitali; … - 2017
Procurement regulation aimed at curbing discrimination requires equal treatment of sellers. However, Deb and Pai (2017 … - imitation perfection - that restricts discrimination significantly. It ensures that in every equilibrium bidders with the same … incompatible with revenue and social surplus optimization. Thus, a trade-off between non-discrimination and optimality exists. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754321
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Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school
Sprietsma, Maresa - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474670
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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions
Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098412