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Stereotypes of physical appearance and labor market chances

Araï, Mahmood; Gartell, Marie; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, … - 2016

Using an experimental setup involving 436 case workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) as subjects and the profile photographs and recorded voices of 75 jobseekers as treatments, we report results indicating that male case workers tend to favor jobseekers perceived as having a...

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Experimental Evidence of Taste-Based Discrimination Against Overweight Workers

Pham-Kanter, Genevieve - 2015

employees and to make promotion recommendations. I find that there is discrimination against overweight workers when bonuses are … for being overweight. If bonuses are a measure of employee taste-based discrimination, these results suggest that some of … the weight penalty seen in observational studies is the result of employee taste-based discrimination …

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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

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Family job search, wage bargaining, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269672

Family job search, wage bargaining, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321420

Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? : Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan's labor market

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Sinha, Nistha; … - 2016

Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...

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Exploring the Gender Wage Gap in the Managerial Labour Market : A Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis

Scicchitano, Sergio - 2015

This article exploits a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using quantile regression (QR) to investigate the gender wage gap among Spanish managers. From the QR significant gender differences in the determinants of wage emerge. The CDA displays a significant gender gap over all the wage...

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Is There a Glass Ceiling Over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap Across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2021

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Parametric Vs. Semi-Parametric Estimation of the Male-Female Wage Gap : An Application to France

Breunig, Robert V.; Rospabe, Sandrine - 2005

We use a semi-parametric method to decompose the difference in male and female wage densities into two parts - one explained by characteristics and one which is attributable to differences in returns to characteristics. We learn substantially more about the gender wage gap in France through this...

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