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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden: The impact of skill mismatch
Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - 2006
We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317955
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Discrimination in the Credential Society : An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market
Gaddis, S. Michael - 2015
major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034305
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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolas; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319490
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Regressão quantílica com correção para a seletividade amostral: Estimativa dos retornos educacionais e diferenciais raciais na distribuição de salários das mulheres no Brasil...
Coelho, Danilo; Veszteg, Róbert; Soares, Fabio Veras - 2010
returns to education and racial discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330755
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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece is examined due to the fact that it is an EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269462
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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece is examined due to the fact that it is an EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926731
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Regressão quantílica com correção para a seletividade amostral : estimativa dos retornos educacionais e diferenciais raciais na distribuição de salários das mulheres no Brasil...
Coelho, Danilo; Veszteg, Róbert; Soares, Fabio Veras - 2010
returns to education and racial discrimination. -- Gender discrimination ; racial discrimination ; quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965496
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The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country
Livanos, Ilias - 2009
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece is examined due to the fact that it is an EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153018
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Human capital and Black-white earnings gaps, 1996-2017
Thompson, Owen - 2021
This paper estimates the contribution of human capital to the Black-white earnings gap in three separate samples of men spanning from 1966 through 2017, using both educational attainment and performance on standardized tests to measure human capital. There are three main findings. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498277
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The quiet revolution in women's human capital and the gender earnings gap in the People's Republic of China
Li, Zhengyang; Zhao, Guochang - 2020
%-30%. When exploring the effect across cohorts, we find that the gap effect (discrimination and unobserved skills) accounts for … more than 50% of the change in the gender earnings gap across cohorts. These results imply that labor market discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205731