Similar Search Results

Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory … practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884410

Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap

Polachek, Solomon W. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

Despite equal pay legislation dating back 50 years, American women still earn 22% less than their male counterparts. In the UK, with its Equal Pay Act of 1970, and France, which legislated in 1972, the gap is 21% and 17% respectively, and in Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884441

A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959772

Marital earnings premiums in Trinidad & Tobago:ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Olsen, Reed Neil; Coppin, Addington - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2010) 1, pp. 201-227

This article employs a unique data set from 1993 with 7,063 working men and women from Trinidad and Tobago to examine the impact of ethnicity and socioeconomic status upon marital earnings premiums. It finds a significant marriage premium for both males and females. Ethnicity is found to play a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213166

Policies for Making the Chilean Labour Market More Inclusive

Sánchez, Aida Caldera - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Economic growth and recent policy reforms have increased employment and reduced overall poverty in Chile. Yet there are some groups that remain at the margins of the labour market and could benefit from and contribute more to growth. Women and young people have entered the labour force in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276939

Human Capital in Transitional Russia

Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002

; there is evidence of increased discrimination. Return to experience increased and remained higher for women than for men …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076535

Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?

Neal, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

increased in absolute value since the late 1980s. I examine the potential importance of discrimination against skilled black …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085296

State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Lahey, Joanna N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Some anti-discrimination laws have the perverse effect of harming the very class they were meant to protect. This paper … provides evidence that age discrimination laws belong to this perverse class. Prior to the enforcement of the federal law … as a threat. After the enforcement of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1979, white male workers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085335

What Do Women Do?: World Population Growth and Fertility Patterns, 1960-2000

Camps, Enriqueta; Engerman, Stanley - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

identity and diversity. It is estimated that three additional years of schooling for mothers leads on average (at the world …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547497

Sexual orientation and occupational rank

Ahmed, Ali M; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2422-2433

This paper presents a study of differences in occupational rank between gay and heterosexual males as well as between lesbian and heterosexual females. We estimate different specifications of an ordered probit model on register data from Sweden. Our data consist of married heterosexual men and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283210