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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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pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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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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network-driven gender inequality but mitigate inequality arising from direct discrimination in internal promotions. …-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 … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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This paper theoretically analyzes the macroeconomic effects of gender discrimination against women in the labor market … leads to a discrimination-induced gender wage gap, lower wages for women and men, lower ag-gregate output, and lower welfare … behavior on the firms' side. We find that, in steady state, this discrimination implies that women work inefficiently more in …
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According to economic theory, the price of parking must vary with the demand for this good. We study the economic consequences of not doing so by estimating the employees' parking demand at one organisation, which, rather uniquely, follows this recommendation. We estimate the effect of the...
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Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic activity. However, very few authors have considered a simultaneous relationship. Using an IV-setup and regional panel-data, I find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle,...
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other variables, like health variables, are inconclusive. Our objective in this paper is to analyse the health convergence … the explanatory variables of health convergence as well as the unobserved spatiotemporal extra-variability. Our results … indicate that, in terms of health, although there was a catching-up process between the EU-27 regions between 1995 and 2009 …
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In this paper I evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3-6 percentage points of the firm's wage sum in Northern and Eastern Finland. I estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction on firms' employment, wage sum and profits, and on workers hourly pay and...
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