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paper explores whether gender discrimination is due to inaccurate statistical discrimination among loan officers, for which …-based discrimination. By eliciting gender preferences among loan officers, it is shown that male-female differences in approval rates are … pro-male officers. Finally, a model-based test showing that gender discrimination decreases with the requested loan amount …
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The aim of this article is to answer the question of whether women in Uruguay face a glass ceiling. To do this, the conditional gender wage gap is evaluated along the empirical wage distribution function. Separated quantile regression for women and men are estimated. We evaluate the...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cuáles son los factores que contribuyen a explicar las diferencias salariales entre hombres y mujeres en España y en Andalucía como caso particular. Para ello, se utiliza una variante al Método de Descomposición Salarial de Blinder-Oaxaca, en el cual...
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increasing, wage gap which cannot be explained by observed productivity characteristics (discrimination component), this being … ceilings” phenomenon among these females. On the contrary, discrimination appeared to decline among women holding a university …
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Using data from the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP), the authors analyze the effects of gender wage gap on household income distribution in Spain. The empirical approach consists of three steps. First, the individual wage gap is estimated for each female worker. Second, a...
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English Abstract: Labor discrimination is a primary issue, which has to be faced by several population groups, among …, and the large extent of it is explained by discrimination. Besides, the gap is higher in the bottom and the top of the …
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characterize the behavior of social regularities created by the employers' discrimination preferences. The basic hypothesis of this … discrimination, a subject in which empirical studies on wage differences prevail …
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paper explores whether gender discrimination is due to inaccurate statistical discrimination among loan officers, for which …-based discrimination. By eliciting gender preferences among loan officers, it is shown that male-female differences in approval rates are … pro-male officers. Finally, a model-based test showing that gender discrimination decreases with the requested loan amount …
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