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We analyze labor discrimination in Peru, a fast-growing country where much anecdotal evidence suggests the presence of …
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This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …
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We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological … but different gender composition. We find that females are as likely as males to take part in the competition and to …
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This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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We allow for differential effects of physical appearance across the wage distribution using a technique traditionally used in the finance literature. We find an average beauty premium of 2%–4% for women, which is concentrated at the bottom of the wage distribution. The average beauty premium...
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to the effects identified using the latter and only a small portion could be discrimination. …
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Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in … gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this … to different-sex households. Simultaneously, the gender wage gap between gays and lesbians is much smaller than in the …
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Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in … gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this … to different-sex households. Simultaneously, the gender wage gap between gays and lesbians is much smaller than in the …
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We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two...
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wage differences are, to a large extent, caused by discrimination, rather than by productivity differences. …
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