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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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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 … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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Who bears labour taxes and social contributions? : a meta-analysis

Melguizo, Ángel; González-Páramo, José Manuel - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 3, pp. 247-271

In this paper we apply the meta-regression technique to survey the empirical literature on the economic incidence of labour taxes and social security contributions. In particular, we focus on the effects of taxation on wages to test the conventional view that employees bear the burden due to...

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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

differences in it. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …

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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 … of this new policy proposal. -- anonymous job applications ; discrimination ; hiring …

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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 … difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men whereas there are no … earnings gap, whereas family background plays a certain role as it affects the earnings of self-employed men and women quite …

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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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