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Pink Work : Same-Sex Marriage, Employment and Discrimination
Sansone, Dario - 2018
by a reduction in discrimination, a marriage premium in wages, or changes in fertility, assortative matching and …
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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents
Mann, Samuel - 2020
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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Discrimination Against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …
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Is it Possible to Be an Affirmative Action Employer and an Equal Opportunity Employer at the Same Time? A Chatgpt Answer
McGee, Robert W. - 2023
Can an employer be both an affirmative action employer and an equal opportunity employer at the same time, or are the two positions contradictory and mutually exclusive? This question was asked to ChatGPT. The response was nuanced and somewhat left-leaning and is reported in this study
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Is my wage fair? : validating fairness perceptions among women and men
Diehl, Claudia; Lang, Julia; Strauß, Susanne; … - 2024
paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …
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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt
Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201
channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …
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Does the gender mix among employers influence who gets hired? : a labor market experiment
Gaudeul, Alexia; Okvitawanli, Ayu; Panganiban, Marian - 2015
We consider in this paper whether the gender mix at the level of decision-makers in firms can influence gender representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with applications from two potential employees. We consider...
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343913
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343915
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Is there a penalty for becoming a woman? : is there a premium for becoming a man? ; evidence from a sample of transsexual workers
Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...
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