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Chapter 5. Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 133-200). 2011
This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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Frauen, Männer und die Hausarbeit : Hintergrunde der Zeitverwendung in Theorie und Empirie
Lauk, Martina; Meyer, Susanne - 2004 - Diese Version: August 2004
Das Geschlechterverhältnis, welches in hohem Maße durch geschlechterspezifische Arbeitsteilung von Erwerbsarbeit und Hausarbeit geprägt ist, befindet sich im Wandel. Dennoch gilt Hausarbeit in Deutschland immer noch als typisch weibliche Aufgabe. Die vorliegende Arbeit überprüft die...
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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
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A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering
Benson, Alan - 2014
I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...
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Human Capital Accumulation and the Transition from Specialization to Multi-Tasking
Crifo, Patricia; Boucekkine, Raouf - 2013
change is then analysed in a dynamic perspective as the transition from specialization towards multi-tasking emphasizing its …
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Ability, Specialization, and 'Economic Imperialism'
Kendall, Todd D. - 2004
In market situations, workers specialize to differing degrees. Previous literature on specialization has focused on …
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The Extent of Labour Specialization in the Extended Family : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Lacroix, Guy - 1997
model emphasizes a ricardian division of labour whereby the specialization is solely driven by marginal productivity and … France to study the extent of trade within the family network. We find evidence that the extent of specialization is …
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Is it sex or personality? : the impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically … typically male professions; nevertheless discrimination in hiring prevails even after controlling for personality …
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The Hidden Cost of Flat Hierarchies on Applicant Pool Diversity : Evidence from Experiments
Hurst, Reuben; Lee, Saerom (Ronnie); Frake, Justin - 2022
This paper investigates how an organization’s formal hierarchy affects the gender diversity in its applicant pool. One perspective based on theories of gendered organizations suggests that, because women may perceive “flat” organizational structures with few hierarchical levels as...
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Hiring Discrimination Against Women : Distinguishing Taste Based Discrimination from Statistical Discrimination
Duguet, Emmanuel - 2017
We propose a new method which allows for measuring separately taste based discrimination from statistical … discrimination in the hiring process. We consider two types of statistical discriminations against women: first, when a recruiter … experimental data from which we obtain optimal estimates of the discrimination components. The method is applied to three …
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