Narrow search
Showing 21 - 30 of 1,370
Cover Image
The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744538
Cover Image
Is There an Ethnic Pay Gap in Germany? Evidence from a Representative Sample of the Adult Population
Ayaita, Adam - 2023
amounts to 2.7% lower wages for ethnic minority (vs. ethnic majority) employees, indicating potential wage discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473890
Cover Image
Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459767
Cover Image
Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
Liu, Xing (Michelle); Sierminska, Eva - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435230
Cover Image
Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - 2015
traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500341
Cover Image
Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677440
Cover Image
Do migrants lower workplace wages?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017
-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612948
Cover Image
The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665761
Cover Image
The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670962
Cover Image
The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages: An Empirical Investigation
Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
maximum below the average height for females and above the average for males. We detect endowment and discrimination … influences. The latter are firstly due to employer discrimination and secondarily less likely due to customer discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822565