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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …
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-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …
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face greater discrimination. …
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
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Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
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Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …
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