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Soft skills, hard skills, and the black/white earnings gap

Fan, C. Simon; Wei, Xiangdong; Zhang, Junsen - 2005

This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively soft/hard skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...

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Social comparison and performance: experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2010

disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advantageous wage discrimination does not increase efforts on average … comparison effects. We also find that reactions to wage discrimination can be attributed to the underlying intentions of … discrimination rather than to payoff consequences …

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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search

Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...

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Generalized Selection Bias and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

The major contribution of this paper is ending a new and flexible way to measure the effects of selection on log-wages. In this context, we offer a general approach to performing decomposition analysis when selection effects are present. We call the difference between unconditional and...

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Social comparison and performance: Experimental evidence on the fair-wage effort hypothesis

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2009

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Uncovering the Roots of Obesity- Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics

Dolado, Juan; Minale, Luigi; Guerra, Airam - 2023

This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …/or statistical discrimination. To this end, we examine how these two types of discrimination hinge on a wide range of obese …

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Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination

Hirata, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 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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Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2020

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …

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Social Networks, Promotions, and the Glass-Ceiling Effect

Zaharieva, Anna; Neugart, Michael - 2020

network-driven gender inequality but mitigate inequality arising from direct discrimination in internal promotions. …

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