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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...

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

Akar, Gizem; Balkan, Binnur; Tümen, Semih - In: Ekonomi-tek - International Economics Journal 2 (2013) 3, pp. 1-21

This paper documents two new findings 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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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment : caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

face greater discrimination. …

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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015

traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature

Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market …

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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 2016

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …

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The supply side of discrimination : evidence from the labor supply of Boston taxi drivers

Jackson, Osborne - 2018 - This version: June, 2018

This paper investigates supply-side discrimination in the labor market for Boston taxi drivers. Using data on millions … drivers discriminate and find that this discrimination is primarily statistical rather than taste-based. As drivers gain … experience and learn to better anticipate wage variation, discrimination decreases. …

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Is my wage fair? : validating fairness perceptions among women and men

Diehl, Claudia; Lang, Julia; Strauß, Susanne; … - 2024

paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …

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Native-immigrant wage differentials in Germany: Assimilation, discrimination, or human capital?

Lang, Günter - 2000

capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … individually diverging efficiency ratios are not well understood, with discrimination only found for ethnic Germans from Eastern …

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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany

Velling, Johannes - 1995

We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …

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