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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … ; wage decomposition ; gender wage gap …

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17

Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...

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Anonymous job applications in Europe

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...

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Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … robust segregation effects. Working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender … differently. -- earnings differential ; gender pay gap ; Germany ; self-employment …

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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sander, Seth G.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live and work in different locations (thus facing different...

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Distintas formas de participación en el mercado laboral en Galicia (España) : influencia del género ; incorporation into the labour force in Galicia (Spain) ; gender effect

Sellero, Carmen Sánchez - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2012)

The personal features involved in the incorporation into the labour force are studied, together with how this incorporation is carried out in Galicia. Three logistic regression models are built with this purpose. The first one is an economical activity model, where the probability that a person...

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La inclusión sociolaboral de la población reclusa de Galicia, España: principales obstáculos y propuestas para su superación

Barreiro-Gen, María - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2012)

The current economic crisis makes harder to get a job. Also, certain groups have more difficult due to other factors such as social mistrust. It's the case of people who leave or are about to leave a prison. Therefore, we analyzed the employability of prisoners serving grade 3 in Galicia. Our...

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Raining stones? : female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Antòn, José-Ignacio; Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de; … - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 53-86

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both … differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant role, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender …

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Does increased price competition reduce entry of new pharmaceutical products?

Granlund, David; Rudholm, Niklas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-14

In October 2002, a substitution reform was introduced in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market. In this paper, the effects of increased price competition due to the reform on the entry of new pharmaceutical products were studied. The results show that the reform did affect the entry behavior of...

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