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The role of sex segregation in the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany

Ransmayr, Juliane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 37-81

considered, we confirm the very strong negative association between female presence in a subject or occupation and wages. However …, no consistent pattern emerges with regard to whether men's or women's wages suffer larger penalties. There is also no …

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Trends in Cyprus Wage Inequality : The Returns to Education

Kallenos, Theodosis L. - 2016

Education is widely recognized as one of the most important determinants of earnings in the labour market. A main aspect of the relationship between education and earnings is the wage premium between workers with higher and lower education. The findings of previous studies show that changes in...

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Experimental Evidence of Taste-Based Discrimination Against Overweight Workers

Pham-Kanter, Genevieve - 2015

In this study, I look at whether individuals treat overweight workers differently from slender workers when deliberating about bonuses and promotions. Using a nationally representative sample of over 1700 subjects, I experimentally vary the performance ratings and the apparent weight of...

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Wage Discrimination in Uruguay (1991-1997)

Rossi, Maximo; Rivas, Fernanda - 2001

The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution, during the nineties, of the wage differential between men and women, and in particular the labor market discrimination. We try to analyze if in a frame of increasing openness to international trade, decreasing inflation, wage negotiation...

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Continued Decline for Ethnic Minorities in the Transition? Changes in Ethnic Earnings Differentials in Bulgaria, 1986, 1993 and 1997

Giddings, Lisa A. - 2004

Using three Bulgarian cross-sectional household surveys from 1986, 1993 and 1997, this essay shows that the mean log wage differential between ethnic Bulgarians and Turks increased from 0.1615 in 1986 to 0.2874 in 1993 and again to 0.4075 by 1997. Bulgarian gains over ethnic Turks in the early...

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Salaries of Recent Male and Female College Graduates : Educational and Labor Market Effects

Joy, Lois - 2003

Why do recent male college graduates earn more than their female counterparts? The author explores this question by estimating several salary regressions using data from the 1993-94 NCES Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study. The results suggest that labor market variables outweighed...

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Labor Market Dropouts and Trends in the Wages of Black and White Men

Juhn, Chinhui - 2003

simple method of imputing wages to non-workers. When non-workers are accounted for in the calculations, real wage growth for … wages of workers and potential wages of non-workers …

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Taste-Based Gender Discrimination by Contestants on the Price is Right

Atanasov, Pavel D.; Dana, Jason D. - 2015

We report evidence of gender discrimination by contestants in the One Bid game on The Price Is Right television show. One Bid contestants bid sequentially in an attempt to get closest to the price of a prize on display without exceeding it. The last bidder in the game has a dominant cutoff...

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Ethnic and Gender Wage Disparities in Sri Lanka

Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan; Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep - 2004

ethnic and gender groups. Identify the determinants of wages and the factors that affect the wage differential. Analyze the … determinants of wages across the conditional wage distribution. Disaggregate the ethnic or gender wage disparities where observed … wages. The result is robust to different specifications. In addition, ethnicity is not significant in any of the conditional …

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Returns to Human Capital in Transitional Russia

Vernon, Victoria - 2003

This paper applies parametric and nonparametric techniques to the most recent data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) 1992-2000 and shows the returns to schooling increased over the course of transition, overall and for attainment cohorts neither at the top nor bottom of the...

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