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-scale field experiment conducted in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price … price gap also falls with the number of nearby repair shops, suggesting that market competition alleviates gender … discrimination in service markets. Women receive price quotes that are 2% (over 10 dollars) higher than those received by men. These …
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, 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 … workers; or it may be the result of rewarding non-economic characteristics such as gender. Using data from the 1995 …
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Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. Morerecently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gapsmight differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these … studies,summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe istypically increasing across the …
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mobile phone service. It also includes a quantitative experiment with 517 participants to examine, under close to real …
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behavioral experiment (N=117) comparing three communication media (face-to-face, email, and Internet reverse auctions) and two …
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as they relate to the manager's gender. Using a larger sample and different techniques than have been used in the past … consistent result is that when changing the composition of fund management, regardless of gender, the new management has … of abnormal returns cannot be attributed to the fund manager's gender. …
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on different labour market groups? Two wage indicators (the gender pay gap and …no change in the gender wage gap in the full-time labour market (equal to 10.5 …per cent), a 12.6 percentage point convergence in the gender wage gap in the …
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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 … percent in the mid-to-late 1980s. Gender differences in preferences are comparatively less important: the gap would have been …
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