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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417670
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450031
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Endowment or discrimination? : an analysis of immigrant-native earnings differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476143
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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
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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125907
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Bad karma or discrimination? : male-female wage gaps among salaried workers in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Goel, Deepti; Khanna, Shantanu - 2015
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387102
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Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap
Dostie, Benoît; Li, Jiang; Card, David E.; Parent, Daniel - 2020
We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...
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Spatial-ethnic inequalities : the role of location in the estimation of ethnic wage differentials
Longhi, Simonetta - 2017
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737506
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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap
Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 2016
Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476475
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The supply side of discrimination : evidence from the labor supply of Boston taxi drivers
Jackson, Osborne - 2018 - This version: June, 2018
This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …
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