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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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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438196
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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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Maids and school teachers : low skill migration and high skill labor supply
Freire, Tiago - 2010
Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
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Equality of the sexes and gender differences in competition : evidence from three traditional societies
Klonner, Stefan; Pal, Sumantra; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020
Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional society where women and men have similar rights and...
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