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A model of worker investment in safety and its effects on accidents and wages

Guardado, José R.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In contrast, in our model, workers make individual safety investments that reduce the risk of...

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? : evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014

Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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The gender-career estimation gap

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations. Firstly, the theoretical background and the literature are identified. Within this frame, the instance of self-under-estimated career prospects of female workers and statistical...

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Mind the gap : a detailed picture of the immigrant-native earnings gap in the UK using longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - 2011

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...

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

Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor); Wei, Xiangdong (contributor) - 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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Should We Mind the Gap? Gender Pay Differentials and Public Policy

Shackleton, J. R. - 2009

Differences in the earnings of women and men are increasingly being used to justify regulation of the private affairs of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the...

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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012

different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either the extent of segregation or the … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and … one fifth from job segregation. We also show that the widely documented glass ceiling effect operates mainly through …

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Why Do Women's Wages Increase So Slowly Throughout Their Career? A Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination

Sofer, Catherine - 2010

The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, which integrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously...

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Gender Pay Gap, Labor Unions and Firm Performance

Dugardin, Fabien-Antoine - 2020

Using detailed employee-employer administrative data, we analyze the impact of the gender pay gap on the performance of firms and find that it depends on the presence of labor unions. When the firm is not unionized, the gender pay gap reduces profitability. In contrast, when unions are present,...

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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy

Ryan, CJ - 2020

Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...

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