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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards
Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...
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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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Factors influencing migration of female workers : a case of Bangladesh
Sultana, Humera; Fatima, Ambreen - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-17
Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad. Investment in the shape of remittance further builds human capital, financial capital, and the social capital. The aim of this study is to analyze the trend of Bangladeshi...
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019
discrimination. …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021
pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328101
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The employment effects of collective bargaining
Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and … imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …
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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