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Labor Mobility and Racial Discrimination

Deschamps, Pierre; De Sousa, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that … reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between labor mobility and race-based wage differentials. We explore this … relationship empirically with an exogenous mobility shock on the European soccer labor market. The Bosman ruling by the European …

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YOUNG WORKERS, MARITAL STATUS AND WAGE GAP

DÍAZ, M. ÁNGELES; SÁNCHEZ, ROSARIO - In: Revista de Economia Aplicada 21 (2013) 1, pp. 57-70

This paper analyses whether marital status has a significant effect on wages and whether it is a determinant of the gender gap. We use the stochastic frontier approach to explain the differences between the potential and the observed wage that an individual could obtain, given his or her human...

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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners: A direct test of taste discrimination

Braakmann, Nils - 2011

I test some predictions of Gary Becker’s theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by employers, co-workers and customers. I combine a 2% sample of the German working population and a 50% sample of German plants with low-level regional data, including the vote...

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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India

Deshpande, Ashwini; Goel, Deepti; Khanna, Shantanu - 2015

We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage...

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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment

Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013

An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from Portugal, matched to balance sheet information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining...

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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru

Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004

In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to...

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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997

Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2005

In most OECD countries the wage gap between men and women has declined during the past two decades. Developments of the last 20 years, e.g. increased labour market attachment of women, changes in the bargaining structure, and the introduction of equal pay laws, may have reduced the gender wage...

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Glass ceilings or glass doors? Wage disparity within and between firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...

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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners: a direct test of taste discrimination

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I test some predictions of Gary Becker's theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by employers, co-workers and customers. I combine a 2% sample of the German working population and a 50% sample of German plants with low-level regional data, including the vote shares...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271173

Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model

Heitmüller, Axel - 2004

The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...

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