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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination
Jolliffe, Dean - 2001
, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476678
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Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions
De Hoyos, R. E. - 2006
The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442018
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Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence
Burda, Michael C.; Schmitd, Christoph M. - 1997
Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can arise either because workers have different endowments of human capital characteristics or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476695
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro-Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabrianova, Klara - 2007
This study provides the first systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477117
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Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials
Blackburn, McKinley L.; Neumark, David - 1992
One competitive-market explanation of interindustry wage differentials that is not challenged by the persistence of these differentials is that they are due to differences across workers in unobserved ability or quality. In contrast, this paper explores the unobserved ability hypothesis by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452178
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The child penalty in Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos
La literatura ha documentado extensamente el papel de la maternidad en la brecha salarial de género. Utilizando datos de la Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales de la Seguridad Social, adoptamos la metodología utilizada en trabajos previos realizados en otros países para evaluar la existencia...
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Deregulation and relative wages: Stability and change in Australia
Preston, Alison - 2000
In Australia the pace of labour market deregulation has rapidly accelerated over
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Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor-Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap 1968-–97.
Gayle, George-Levi; Golan, Limor - 2010
and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441289
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Credit Access, the Costs of Credit and Credit Market Discrimination
Weller, Christian E. - 2008
taste-based discrimination and structural discrimination may have persisted and possibly increased over time. Gaps in credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467885
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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - 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/10009477510