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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …

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Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis

Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

-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 … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment

Card, David E.; 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...

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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997

Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

mean gender wage gap which cannot be explained, i.e. discrimination against women, dropped from 18 to 15.5 per cent of men …’s wages. The drop in discrimination is the main reason for the narrowing of the gender wage gap. …

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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners: A direct test of taste discrimination

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I test some predictions of Gary Becker’s theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by … found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination. …

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