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Mapping stratification : the industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality
Hartmann, Dominik; Jara-Figueroa, Cristian; Kaltenberg, Mary - 2019
Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian...
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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott; van der Leij, Marco; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian …-white differentials. Our analysis finds a strong relationship between the size of the differential and network segregation: regions with …
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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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Wage Differences by Caste and Religion in India
Mondal, Shamim S. - 2016
This paper attempts to systematically look at the differences in wages earned between male workers belonging to various caste and religious identities in India, and how that has changed over time. I use data from seven different rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS) to investigate the wage...
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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago
Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018
sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and …-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wage gaps in Trinidad and Tobago’s private and public sector and its … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the …
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The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets
Bolte, Lukas; Immorlica, Nicole; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2021
We study the consequences of job markets' heavy reliance on referrals. Referrals screen candidates and lead to better matches and increased productivity, but disadvantage job-seekers who have few or no connections to employed workers, leading to increased inequality. Coupled with homophily,...
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination : approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...
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Gender wage gap across the quantiles : what is the role of firm segregation?
Kaya, Ezgi - 2019
In this paper, we explore the role of firm segregation on the gender wage gap. Using linked employee-employer data for … Turkey, we investigate whether female segregation into low-paying firms and into low-paying jobs within a firm influence the … accounts for the existence of these effects more than the segregation of women into low-paying firms. …
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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis
Lübker, Malte - In: Socio-economic review 19 (2021) 2, pp. 735-763
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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis
Luebker, Malte - 2019
Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...
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