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differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender …. This differential has been attributed to labor market discrimination against women. Using data from 2003 and 2010 Household …
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This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …
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differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender …. This differential has been attributed to labor market discrimination against women. Using data from 2003 and 2010 Household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207295
This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321287
endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against …
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We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the … gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of … in fertility. The gender gap in wages, after controlling for worker and job characteristics as well as for selection, is …
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and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized …-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical …
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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 …
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In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …
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