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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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An den Frauen vorbei : Frauenanteil in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors stagniert
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 3, pp. 14-22
. -- financial sector ; board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; public and private banks ; insurance companies …
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Spitzengremien großer Unternehmen : Hartnäckigkeit männlicher Strukturen lässt kaum Platz für Frauen
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 3, pp. 3-12
erhofften Durchbruch bei den Besetzungen von Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten geführt. -- board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender …
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Finanzsektor : männliche Dominanz in Top-Entscheidungsgremien bleibt erdrückend
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 3, pp. 16-24
diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; public and private Banks ; insurances companies …
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Frauenanteil in Topgremien großer Unternehmen in Deutschland nimmt geringfügig zu : DAX-30-Unternehmen mit größerer Dynamik
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 3, pp. 3-14
sighted, however. -- board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; listed companies ; private companies …
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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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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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