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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
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Sexism at work
Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598727
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Does Female Leadership Boost Firm Profitability?
Kotiranta, Annu; Kovalainen, Anne; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
account a number other factors (such as firm size and industry) possibly affecting profitability. The share of woman board …
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La diversité : sans droit ni obligation
Junter, Annie; Sénac-Slawinski, Réjane - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 114 (2010) 3, pp. 167-195
?, we analyze the emergence of diversity as an alternative to gender discrimination hard law. In the second section entitled … ?diversity without rights?, we examine the debates concerning the terms and usage of norms surrounding equality and non-discrimination …
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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904383
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954440
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Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
Liu, Xing; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959650
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959761
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010959809