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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination : evidence from the lab

Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2019

If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …

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The wage-setting power of firms : rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa

Bassier, Ihsaan - 2019

Using administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011-14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle and the bottom of the income distribution. Next, I...

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Discrimination without taste : how discrimination can spillover and persist

Ramachandran, Rajesh; Rauh, Christopher - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 3, pp. 249-274

discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under … perfectly observable ability, when taste for discrimination has died out, and under absence of discriminatory social norms … the theoretical predictions, beliefs about discrimination are a significant correlate of self-employment rates, as well as …

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Headscarf and job recruitment-lifting the veil of labour market discrimination

Leckcivilize, Attakrit; Straub, Alexander - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 11, pp. 1-32

. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it. …

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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...

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Earning differentials by occupational categories : gender, race and regions

Arraes, Ronaldo de Albuquerque e; Menezes, Francisca … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 3, pp. 363-386

compensation characteristics of individuals only (discrimination), income differentials between regions and races also occur from …

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Gender gaps in pay and inter-firm mobility

Bredemeier, Christian - 2019

The gender gap in inter-firm mobility is an important contributor to the gender pay gap but is as yet unexplained. In a structural model of workplace choice, I show that the gender mobility gap can be understood as a consequence of women's typical roles as secondary earners in most households...

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Population with criminal records and racial disparity in labor markets

Boatner, Jasmine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13

Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment rates in black and white population. Some have proposed that part of the gap for men can be explained by the higher rate of criminal records in the black population. Methods: This...

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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Drydakis, Nick - 2017

Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...

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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note

Drydakis, Nick - 2018

range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be …

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