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Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect
Neugart, Michael; Zaharievay, Anna - 2020
network-driven gender inequality but mitigate inequality arising from direct discrimination in internal promotions. …
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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021
pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …
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Gender gaps and the role of bosses
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Holub, Felix - 2021
of manager gender for pay gaps is driven by discrimination rather than same-gender complementarities in productivity …
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...
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The impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistribution and productivity
Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi; Günther, Isabel - 2020
This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using … redistribute earnings by voting on a tax rate for the group. Discrimination against women highly increases preferred tax rates and … discrimination against whites or people of color moderately increases the demand for redistribution. The results indicate that …
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Decomposing the German East-West wage gap
Kluge, Jan; Weber, Michael - 2015
We demonstrate that almost one half of the observed wage gap between East and West Germany reflects differences in worker, establishment, and regional characteristics rather than differences in productivity at the establishment level. Regional price and establishment size differentials alone...
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Exploiting regional heterogeneity to test wage setting theories : firm size wage effects in urban and rural regions
Ludsteck, Johannes - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete
We exploit regional differences in labour market density to conduct a simple empirical test of dynamic monopoly and selection wage theories. According to selection wage theories employers offer above-average wages in order to attract more applicants. This allows them to be choosier and to select...
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Inter-regional wage differentials in Portugal : an analysis across the wage distribution
Pereira, João Manuel; Galego, Maria Aurora - 2012
The issue of regional wage differentials is relevant both for policy proposes and general public discussion. A sound knowledge of the distribution of wage inequalities and their causes is essential for defining policy measures for reducing spatial income inequalities. A range of empirical...
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Shareholders and wage determination
Ogorevc, Marko; Šlander, Sonja - 2010
Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
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L' adresse contribue-t-elle à expliquer les écarts de salaires ? : le cas de jeunes sortant du système scolaire
Ene Jones, Emilia; Sari, Florent - In: Revue d'économie régionale & urbaine : RERU (2016) 1, pp. 203-244
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