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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries

Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft

Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...

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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 conditioned on the distribution of characteristics reveals that segregation …

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On labour market discrimination against Roma in South East Europe

Milcher, Susanne; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2010

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The effects of gender discrimination in DSGE Models

Neyer, Ulrike; Stempel, Daniel - 2019

This paper theoretically analyzes the macroeconomic effects of gender discrimination against women in the labor market in a New Keynesian model. We extend standard frameworks by including unpaid household production in addition to paid labor market work, by assuming that the representative...

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Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect

Neugart, Michael; Zaharievay, Anna - 2020

Empirical studies show that women are under-represented in highly paid top management positions of firms (glass-ceiling effect) which could be a cause of the gender wage gap. In order to study women's career paths, we develop a search and matching model where job ladders consist of three...

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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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Earnings returns to education, experience and health : evidence from EU-SILC

Flores, Manuel; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2013 - (Very preliminary version)

Using individual-level panel data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007-2010) we explore to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience and health. The human capital literature suggests an...

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Job polarization on local labor markets? : paper prepared for presentation at the Tasks IV Conference, Mannheim 29 July 2016

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang - 2016

In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We...

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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012

Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...

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