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Lovász, Anna; Rigó, Mariann - 2009

In this paper we seek to provide new empirical evidence on the relative productivities and wages of various worker groups (by gender, age, and education), based on longitudinal matched employer-employee data from Hungary covering 1986-2005. We estimate the productivity and wage gaps from...

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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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Firm leadership and the gender pay gap : do active owners discriminate more than hired managers?

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2010

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run firms. We hypothesise that owner-run firms have higher pay gaps because active owners are less inhibited to live out profit-reducing...

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Performance pay and the gender wage gap : evidence from Spain

Rica, Sara de la; Dolado, Juan J.; Vegas, Raquel - 2010

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP is determined in a more competitive fashion than...

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The gender pay gap in informal employment in Poland

Rokicka, Magdalena; Ruzik, Anna - 2010

This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses...

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Gender wage gap : a semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction

Picchio, Matteo; Mussida, Chiara - 2010

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of densities in the presence of covariates which...

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Wages and immigrant occupational composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant...

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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 employers, co-workers and customers. I combine a 2% sample of the German working population and a 50% sample of German plants with low-level regional data, including the vote...

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Glass ceilings or glass doors? : wage disparity within and between firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is …-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We … disparity they face. -- Glass ceilings ; wage differentials ; immigration ; visible minorities ; quantile regression ; linked …

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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country

Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009

This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece is examined due to the fact that it is an EU...

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