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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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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 … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …
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; assimilation ; second generation effects ; gender …
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Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
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"Ethics" was once considered irrelevant by corporate loyalists, but now discussion of it is increasingly seen as not only important but also as critical to a company’s success. The paper is a theoretical review. The purpose and objective of the paper is to explore and understand the meaning of...
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differences in it. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …
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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 such as Sweden, France and the Netherlands field experiments were …
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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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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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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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