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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis
Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016
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 exposure to unemployment) and a secure job after...
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Assessing Immigrant Generational Status from Names : Evidence for Experiments Examining Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Discrimination
Gaddis, S. Michael - 2019
across the world. I conduct a survey experiment that presents respondents with a series of first and last names to examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901221
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The economic status of Asian Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Sanders, Seth - 2012
In contrast to their relative standing in today's labor market, in 1960 U.S.-born men in all Asian groups earned substantially less than comparable whites. We explore explanations for the wage gap and find that all of the variables that might plausibly account for it, such as Asian/white...
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The civil rights act and the earnings of lower income Hispanic men in the 1960's
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2012
This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548645
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749608
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292738
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294546
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Competiton and the gender wage gap: new evidence from linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2003
Lovász, Anna (contributor) - 2008
Hungary. During the same time period, firms faced increased competition from both new domestic and foreign firms due to the … that employers that discriminate against women may be forced out of the market by competition in the long run, leading to a …-2003. I estimate the effect of variation in various measures of product market competition, including trade variables, on the …
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