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Beauty and productivity : a meta-analysis

Bortnikova, Kseniya - 2020

of the effect of beauty on worker's productivity, as reported in 37 studies. The estimates are tested for publication … beauty effect concerning productivity. The average beauty effect is probably much lower than commonly believed based on the …

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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs

Hirsch, Barry T.; MacPherson, David A. - 2021

Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees … equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls sharply after controlling for occupational skills. Longitudinal estimates … support a "quality sorting" explanation, with racial density serving as an index of unmeasured skills. Although past …

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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm’s...

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Maternity and Labor Markets: Impact of Legislation in Colombia

Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015

This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...

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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers

Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2003

separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize …

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Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Rural Youth: Evidence from a Panel Survey and an Experiment

Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021

This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market

Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas; Sloane, Peter; Wei, … - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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Disability and skill mismatch

Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

. -- Skills ; disability ; job matching ; earnings ; job satisfaction …

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