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Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …
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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent … inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
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We study gender inequality in conference acceptance using data from the Irish Economic Association annual conference … gender gap is observed in the organisers' acceptance decisions, there is an indication of in-group gender bias at the …
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There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
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This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …
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This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …
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discrimination. In this paper we aim at analysing the effect of local labour market conditions on a firm's decision to discriminate …. We use a direct measure of discrimination using online job advertisements which use ascriptive characteristics (such as … gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit …
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It is a well-established view amongst economists that goodlooking people have a better chance of employment and can earn more than those who are less physically attractive. A "beauty premium" is particularly apparent in jobs where there is a productivity gain associated with good looks, though...
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While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage …
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We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the …
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