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Endowment or Discrimination? An Analysis of Immigrant-Native Earnings Differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260561
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431261
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451230
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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru
Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004
In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261755
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2005
mean gender wage gap which cannot be explained, i.e. discrimination against women, dropped from 18 to 15.5 per cent of men …?s wages. The drop in discrimination is the main reason for the narrowing of the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262658
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Glass ceilings or glass doors? Wage disparity within and between firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269396
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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners: a direct test of taste discrimination
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
I test some predictions of Gary Becker's theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by … found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271173
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
Heitmüller, Axel - 2004
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274204