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Sex Discrimination and Growth
Esteve-Volart, Berta - 2021
reduction in GDP per capita; the latter distorts the allocation of talent and lowers economic growth. Both imply lower female …-to-male schooling ratios. Our model predicts a convex relationship between nondiscrimination and growth. Although discrimination is … that is consistent with a convex relationship between schooling differentials and growth …
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Structural Change, Gender Gaps, and Educational Choice
Reimers, Paul - 2021
Men in low-income countries invest considerably more years in school than women. From low- to high-income countries, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work, I assess in how far this decline may be related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251909
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Is it sex or personality? : the impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750852
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The Gender Pay Gap : Statistical Discrimination and Self-Selection
Cardenas, Ernesto - 2019
We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two mechanisms: a statistical discrimination mechanism linked to a stereotype belief in which women engage in child-rearing activities while men do not and a self-selection mechanism...
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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 doubts the productivity of the workers; second, when a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941786
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Is it Sex or Personality? The Impact of Sex-Stereotypes on Discrimination in Applicant Selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2001
This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141401
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Is it sex or personality? : The impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001534734
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The Wrong Man for the Job : Biased Beliefs and Job Mismatching
Maggian, Valeria - 2017
In this paper we build a theoretical model to show the role of self-confidence in leading to inefficient job matching equilibria: under-confident highly-qualified workers do not apply for highly-skilled jobs, because mistakenly perceive themselves as having relatively lower abilities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963724
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Fair Labor Association
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2021
The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and socially-responsible companies. FLA promotes adherence to international and national labour laws as this non-governmental organisation advocates for greater accountability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227296
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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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