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differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to …
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428940
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430674
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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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …
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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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. We find no evidence of gender-based discrimination, including in STEM occupations. However, in line with previous studies …We conduct a correspondence study to assess demand for soft skills in the context of hiring discrimination in Malaysia … in the same context, we find evidence of ethnic discrimination. We then test the relevance of two soft skills: leadership …
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We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the …
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