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The Law and Economics of Employment Discrimination Law

Hersch, Joni - 2018

the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Court decisions and legislation have led to the extension of …. Prior emphasis on employment discrimination on the basis of race and sex has been superseded by enhanced attention to sexual …

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The Gender Difference in the Value of Winning

Chen, Zhuoqiong (Charlie) - 2018

We design an all-pay auction experiment in which we reveal the gender of the opponent. Using this design, we find that women bid higher than men, but only when bidding against other women. These findings, interpreted through a theoretical model incorporating differences in risk attitude and the...

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When Home Affects Pay : An Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap Among Crowdworkers

Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2017

Debates on the gender pay gap have often focused on discrimination by employers, whether explicit or implicit, and the subsequent implications for men and women's pay in the workplace. We use data from an online crowdworking platform, where workers' sex is unknown to the employer, to assess...

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What Determines the Part-Time and Gender Earnings Gaps in Britain : Evidence from the Workplace

Mumford, Karen - 2010

This study examines the role of individual and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male part-timers, female full-timers, and female...

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Efficient Deterrence of Workplace Sexual Harassment

Hersch, Joni - 2019

Although sexual harassment imposes costs on both victims and organizations, it is also costly for organizations to reduce sexual harassment. Legislation, education, training, and litigation have all been unsuccessful in eradicating workplace sexual harassment. My proposal is to establish...

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Child Care Provision and Women's Careers in Firms

Chhaochharia, Vidhi - 2020

We investigate the impact of government-provided child care on women's careers. Using a unique employer-employee matched data set from Germany, we find that mothers in low child care counties experience a 25% larger earnings penalty than mothers in high child care counties. This penalty is...

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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco - 2014

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification participation decision (whether or not to diversify at all) is jointly estimated with the decision of how much to diversify. In so doing, recent literature on the modelling of...

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Do White NBA Players Suffer from Reverse Discrimination?

Ajilore, Olugbenga - 2014

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been fertile ground for the study of discrimination due to demographic … accustomed to African-Americans in the NBA. Recent research has now shown that the pendulum has swung in the other direction and … there exists reverse discrimination with white athletes in the NBA. Following Altonji and Pierret (2001), I use a …

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Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited

Mariotti, Francesco - 2015

We analyse the migration movements of power couples (couples where both members have at least a college degree), half power and no-power couples within Australia. We explicitly allow for potential correlation of these movements with local labour market features. Our results support the...

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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...

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