In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

Lack of economic assimilation of immigrants often results in social and political unrest of a society. The increased desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants is due to increased immigration flows in many western countries. In this paper we try to study the...

The articles published here were all presented at the international conference on the measurement of discriminations held at the University of Evry Val d'Essonne on 13 and 14 December 2007, under the auspices of the TEPP research federation (FR n° 3126 of the CNRS). Over these two days, about...

In this paper, we investigate the extent of the effects of children and child-related time out of the labor market on the gender wage gap in France, with special attention to its impact on the accumulation and composition of human capital. Measuring this impact requires detailed information on...

We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata. While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap, in this paper, we use both non-parametric (kernel) and quantile regression methods to analyse the distribution...

[spa] Una medición de la discriminación en la diferencia de salario entre hombres y mujeres Las diferencias de salario entre hombres y mujeres se deben a multiples factores. Primero, los empleos ocupados no tienen las mismas caracterlsticas: las duraciones medias de trabajo de las mujeres son...

[spa] En 2002, la diferencia salarial media mensual de mujeres y hombres es de 25,3 %, es decir, apenas un punto menos de lo que era en 1990. Además, los componentes de esta disparidad, bien sean estructurales, es decir, resultado de las diferencias en las características productivas y en los...

In this paper, we propose an analysis of the monthly wage gap in ten of the EU countries (Austria Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United-Kingdom). We use a standard methodology in order to measure the part of the gap which results from male-female...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study the role of intermarriage in the process of immigrant economic assimilation in France. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate an earnings equation for immigrants in France to examine the extent to which intermarried immigrants are...