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Wage Differentials in Brazilian Manufacturing

Arbache, Jorge Saba - School of Economics, University of Kent - 1997

, efficiency wages, rent-sharing, and discrimination. However, contrasting with previous results which strongly support the …

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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru

Nopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004

In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to...

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Changes in the Gender Wage Gap and The Returns to Firm Specific Human Capital

Walsh, Frank; Strobl, Eric - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

tenure by gender. Differences in contracts to finance on the job training can no longer explain any of the “discrimination …

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Competition and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary 1986-2003

Lovasz, Anna - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2008

rapid liberalization measures implemented by the government. Becker's (1957) model of employer taste discrimination implies …

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A search model with endogenous job destruction and discrimination: Why equal wage policies may not eliminate wage disparity

Lanning, Jonathan A. - In: Labour Economics 26 (2014) C, pp. 55-71

This paper extends the search with discrimination framework by introducing jobs that are constrained by equal wage … policies can actually increase the steady-state level of market discrimination. I discuss this result's implication that … different policies may be optimal to combat discrimination based on race versus discrimination based on gender, though this …

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YOUNG WORKERS, MARITAL STATUS AND WAGE GAP

DÍAZ, M. ÁNGELES; SÁNCHEZ, ROSARIO - In: Revista de Economia Aplicada 21 (2013) 1, pp. 57-70

This paper analyses whether marital status has a significant effect on wages and whether it is a determinant of the gender gap. We use the stochastic frontier approach to explain the differences between the potential and the observed wage that an individual could obtain, given his or her human...

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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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Overview of Firm-Size and Gender Pay Gaps in Turkey: The Role of Informal Employment

Akar, Gizem; Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper documents two new facts linking firm-size and gender pay gaps to informal employment using micro-level data from Turkey. First, we show that the firm-size wage gap, defined as larger firms paying higher wages to observationally equivalent workers, is greater for informal employment...

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Mobility, wages and gender across Europe

Contreras, Dulce; D; Sánchez, Rosario; R; Soria, Delfina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper, the socioeconomic and individual characteristics that favor mobility are analyzed. The stochastic frontier technique is used as an instrument of analysis to measure the differences that arise between the potential wage and the one that should be obtained for an individual with...

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Feminización y diferencias salariales en Uruguay en el período 1986-1997

Rossi, Máximo; González, Cecilia - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007

. This “hypothesis” maintain that women concentration in a few occupations caused by discrimination, produce a decrease in … differences to obtain the share of discrimination and no-discrimination components in the wage difference obtained. The results …

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