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affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. …
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A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards has been emphasized in a classical...
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Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
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private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …
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gender research to explain why men's and women's evaluations of justice are determined to a considerable degree by the … specific situation within their household. The assumptions derived regarding gender-specific patterns in justice attitudes are … thesis that gender-specific patterns in the evaluation of personal earnings are both reduced and increased in dual …
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differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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was partially offset by changes in the distribution of these characteristics. Between-gender inequality fell with respect … to both samples. In contrast to within-gender inequality, this was largely explained by changes in the returns to the …
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In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two …
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. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …
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