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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolas; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013
favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319490
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Wage Premia for Education and Location, By Gender and Race in South Africa
Schultz, T. Paul; Mwabu, Germano - 1998
Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369223
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261890
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Changing returns to education during a boom? The case of Ireland
McGuinness, Seamus; McGinnity, Frances; O'Connell, Philip - 2008
Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290583
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Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003
Papps, Kerry L. - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262116
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The GED
Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010
test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274263
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600996
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Remittances and gender: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274695