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gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and … education and more experience will be rewarded at the same rate at any combination. The wage discrimination estimation shows …
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, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … workers; or it may be the result of rewarding non-economic characteristics such as gender. Using data from the 1995 …
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Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. Morerecently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gapsmight differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these … studies,summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe istypically increasing across the …
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This research attempts to determine if a customer's visible physical characteristics influence retail service delivery. The results of this study suggest that black and male customers wait significantly longer than white and female customers at retail customer service counters. In addition,...
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-scale field experiment conducted in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price … discrimination in service markets. Women receive price quotes that are 2% (over 10 dollars) higher than those received by men. These … differences disappear when women signal low search costs, suggesting statistical rather than taste-based discrimination. Price …
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This paper analyses the impact of quality based labelling on product prices,factor allocation and the resulting effects on producers within the context of aninternational trading system. A general equilibrium model, calibrated to 1998 data,describes United States and European Union labelling...
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“Substantial downzoning” is defined as the exercise of police power to significantly reduce the legally permitted density on undeveloped land in a community. This contentious practice is typically challenged by those who perceive the action to limit their market opportunities (e.g., farmers...
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Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
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on different labour market groups? Two wage indicators (the gender pay gap and …no change in the gender wage gap in the full-time labour market (equal to 10.5 …per cent), a 12.6 percentage point convergence in the gender wage gap in the …
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Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...
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