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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695860
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Labor Mobility and Racial Discrimination
Deschamps, Pierre; De Sousa, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that … market mobility decreases racial discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109132
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Endowment or Discrimination? An Analysis of Immigrant-Native Earnings Differentials in Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260561
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431261
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451230
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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329118
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698696
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Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin
FOUGERE, DENIS; Aeberhardt, Romain; Pouget, Julien; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an African country at birth. For that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763649
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Evidence on Gender Wage Discrimination in Portugal: parametric and semi-parametric approaches
Galego, Aurora; Pereira, João - Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Évora - 2006
In this paper we use two alternative approaches to study the extent of gender wage discrimination in Portugal. Both … evidence in favour of the existence of gender wage discrimination in Portugal. However, the extent of labour market … discrimination decreases when sample selection bias corrections are taken into account. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577430
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Job Assignment and the Gender Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence on Finnish Metalworkers
Vartiainen, Juhana - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 1999
-Rosen model of job ladders but can alternatively be interpreted as evidence for gender discrimination in job assignment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207119