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Sexual orientation, gender identity and labour market outcomes : new patterns and insights
Drydakis, Nick; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
on quantitative empirical studies and compare findings along a variety of topics such as, earnings patterns, occupational … recent studies have found that gay men received either the same wages or higher wages compared to heterosexual men, while … lesbian women have been found to receive lower wages in comparison to heterosexual women. We reveal the new evidence on this …
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Women's sexual orientation and occupational tasks : partners, prejudice, and motherhood
Carrasco, Raquel; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana - 2024
This paper examines differences in occupational task content among women based on their sexual orientation. Using data from the American Community Survey, we find that women in same-sex couples are more likely to be employed in occupations characterized by more abstract and manual tasks, and...
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Disclosure of sexual orientation in the USA and its consequences in the workplace
Bonaventura, Luigi; Biondo, Alessio Emanuele - In: International journal of social economics 43 (2016) 11, pp. 1115-1123
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Career lesbians : getting hired for not having kids?
Baert, Stijn - 2013
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222307
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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
Gradín, Carlos - 2017
We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i.e. when women or men are predominantly segregated into low-paying jobs. For this, we propose to use concentration curves and indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634452
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Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - 2018
In this paper, I show that occupations in South Africa are segregated and stratified not only by race, but also by gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian/Asian but also Coloured) tend to fill higher-paying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846186
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Discouraged worker effect and labor market behavior of urban married women
Tayal, Deeksha; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 93-122
The study investigates the importance of poor local labor market conditions in explaining the labor market behavior of married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a discouraged worker effect arising from either of two...
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The paradox of the contented female worker : the mediating role of income and the moderating role of sexual orientation
Smyth, Russell; Nielsen, Ingrid; Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, … - In: International journal of human resource management 32 (2021) 3, pp. 573-595
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Employment, wages, and the gender gap in Mexico : evidence of three decades of the urban labor market
Cuellar, Cecilia Y.; Moreno, Jorge O. - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 2, pp. 1-22
This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a … Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) and Mulligan-Rubinstein (2008) decomposition to estimate the gender gap in wages. Our results suggest …
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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