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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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Quantitative predictions for complex scientific theories are often obtained by running simulations on computational models. In order for a theory to meet with wide-spread acceptance, it is important that the model be reproducible and comprehensible by independent researchers. However, the...
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purpose we apply experimental as well as formal methods.Our first investigation focuses on static decision problems. We test … Ellsberg (1961) we test whether subjects behave consistently with either dynamic consistency or consequentialism. We find that … among ambiguity-averse subjects. This evidence can be seen as support for theories of updating ambiguity …
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updating is also provided. …
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accounting conservatism. As a final step, we review selected empirical studies to illustrate the relevant evidence found within …
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Financial reporting conservatism enjoys a long-standing place of prominence in accounting principles and practices. Its … prevailing influence justifies the considerable attention conservatism has, and continues to receive in accounting research. A … evidence is intuitive on a number of levels, the notion of conservatism appears to be incongruent with the continual spate of …
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