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Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …
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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage … workers are more concern of job insecurity than contract workers. -- job security ; discrimination ; wages ; decomposition …
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increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317621
Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
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engender phenomena like over-education, discrimination, regional wage differentials and a tendency for larger firms paying …
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This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...
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It is a well-established view amongst economists that goodlooking people have a better chance of employment and can earn more than those who are less physically attractive. A "beauty premium" is particularly apparent in jobs where there is a productivity gain associated with good looks, though...
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While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … gap: because concentrated industries face little competitive pressure to reduce discrimination, an increase in competition …
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This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the … a job) and the staff of the firm. Contrary to the classical view according to which discrimination results from …
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We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the …
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