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Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect
Neugart, Michael; Zaharievay, Anna - 2020
be used for external moves between firms. We show that when female workers are the minority in the occupation and social … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … workers are the minority can explain a substantial part of the empirically observable total wage gap stemming from the glass …
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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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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
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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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 …
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The evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation across formal and non-formal labor markets in Brazil, 1987 to 2006
Salardi, Paola - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 62 (2016), pp. 68-89
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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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On labour market discrimination against Roma in South East Europe
Milcher, Susanne; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2010
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Neighborhood effect and labor market integration
Solignac, Matthieu; Tô, Maxime - 2013
The 2008 economic crisis raised concerns about unemployment, especially for youths. Over the last decade, two stylized facts can be observed in the French labor market about youth unemployment: its average rate remaining at high levels and its major spatial variations. This paper investigates...
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How immigration reduced social capital in the US : 2005-2011
Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013
Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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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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