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Endowment or discrimination? : an analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476143
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Unobserved heterogeneity and labor market discrimination
Sarzosa, Miguel - 2018
Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943479
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The supply side of discrimination : evidence from the labor supply of Boston taxi drivers
Jackson, Osborne - 2018 - This version: June, 2018
This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011861488
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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020
pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266748
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019
discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986917
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Family, firms and the gender wage gap in France
Coudin, Elise; Maillard, Sophie; Tô, Maxime - 2018
In France, in 2014, women's hourly wages were on average 14.4 % lower than men's. Beyond differentials in observed characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To answer that question, we apply the approach of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817393
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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288539
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375829
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378351
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380863