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Competition and the racial wage gap : testing Becker's model of employer discrimination
Hirata, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016
According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination. We look at the natural experiment represented by the Brazilian trade …
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-14
with few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that …
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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Janssen, Simon - 2014
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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Are Women in Supervisory Positions More Discriminated Against? A Multinomial Approach
Biagetti, Marco - 2016
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the …
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Are Women in Supervisory Positions More Discriminated Against? : A Multinomial Approach
Scicchitano, Sergio - 2016
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the …
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The gender pay gap in ireland from austerity through recovery
Doorley, Karina; Privalko, Ivan; Russell, Helen; Tuda, Dora - 2021
This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to administrative information on earnings, we show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607746
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An Economic Theory of Labor Discrimination
Vallejo, Hernan - 2021
This article presents a theory of labor discrimination based on the behavior of economic agents that maximize utility … perfect discrimination; discrimination by quantities of labor hired; and discrimination by types of labor hired. The article … governments decide not to allow for wage discrimination. First best minimum wages may contribute to improve employment and welfare …
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Discrimination in the Credential Society : An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market
Gaddis, S. Michael - 2015
major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …
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