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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999
Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there … estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap … find overwhelming evidence that OLS seriously overestimate the unexplained gender wage gap. …
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Organizational Justice and Antidiscrimination
Areheart, Bradley A. - 2020
Despite eighty years of governmental interventions, the legal system has proven ill-equipped to address workplace discrimination. Potential plaintiffs are reluctant to file discrimination claims for a host of social and economic reasons, and the relatively few who do file face steep structural...
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Working time as an investment? : The effects of unpaid overtime on wages, promotions and layoffs
Anger, Silke (contributor) - 2005
Whereas the number of paid overtime hours declined over the last decade, a different trend can be observed for unpaid overtime work in Germany. We look at the future consequences for overtime workers, and therefore investigate the investment character of working time. We examine whether unpaid...
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A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages
Erosa, Andres - 2012
Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we document that gender differences in wages … almost double during the first 20 years of labor market experience and that there are substantial gender differences in … employment and hours of work during the life cycle. A large portion of gender differences in labor market attachment can be …
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What's best for women : gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income?
Colombinoa, Ugo; Narazani, Edlira - 2013
Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women's status in the … Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of GBT as compared to other policies based on different optimal taxation …
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Islamic work ethics as a key engine of endogenous economic growth
Raies, Asma - In: Islamic economic studies 29 (2022) 2, pp. 86-99
Purpose God promised pious individuals who obey to His commandments, to increase their economic well-being. Although it is difficult to demonstrate with figures in hand this causality relationship, Muslims must believe in its existence and robustness at both the individual and collective levels,...
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Sex, benevolence and willingness to pay for screening
Whynes, David K.; Sach, Tracey - In: International journal of social economics 43 (2016) 10, pp. 982-997
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Competing for love: applying sexual economics theory to mating contests
Baumeister, Roy F.; Reynolds, Tania; Winegard, Bo; … - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 63 (2017), pp. 230-241
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Social constraints on sexual consent
Dougherty, Tom - In: Politics, philosophy & economics : ppe 21 (2022) 4, pp. 393-414
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Correspondence testing studies : what can we learn about discrimination in hiring?
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2014
Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in hiring and provide hard facts for policies. The method...
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