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Do employment quotas explain the occupational choices of disadvantaged minorities in India?

Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - In: International review of applied economics 26 (2012) 4, pp. 489-513

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Gender Discrimination and the International Division of Labour

Busse, Matthias; Spielmann, Christian - 2003

The paper empirically explores the international economic effects of gender discrimination, namely the linkages of gender inequality with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses different forms and the extent of gender discrimination across countries and...

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The gender gap in labor market participation and employment: a cohort analysis for West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schnabel, Reinhold; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2001

females of different skill levels. Going beyond the descriptive cross tabulations of participation and employment rates by … year, skill level, and sex, this paper uses a model which simultaneously takes into account the effects of time, age, and … birth cohort membership. The estimation results allow for the construction and comparison of gender and skill specific life …

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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...

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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an Internet-based search channel

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2007

This paper uses data from an Internet-based CV database to investigate how factors which may be used as a basis for discrimination, such as the searchers' ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from firms. Since we have access to essentially 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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Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia

Ekström, Erika - 1998

This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...

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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies

Fang, Hanming; Norman, Peter - 2001

This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...

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Verdienstdifferenzen zwischen Frauen und Männern nur teilweise durch Strukturmerkmale zu erklären

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 15, pp. 184-190

Die Entlohnung von Frauen in abhängigen Beschäftigungen blieb in Deutschland auch im Jahr 2006 deutlich hinter der der Männer zurück. Für den Durchschnitt der Vollzeitbeschäftigen zeigt sich beim Bruttomonatsverdienst eine Lücke von 18 Prozent. Schätzungen unter Berücksichtigung von...

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