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...

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for a female and a male at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a nonparametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it...

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...

[fre] Dans cet article, l’écart de salaire horaire moyen entre les salariés hommes et femmes du secteur privé en France en 1992 est analysé en utilisant une méthode de décomposition qui tient compte à la fois des différences de salaire à l’intérieur d’une catégorie d’emplois...

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...

This paper uses two employer-employee linked data sets to investigate the interactive role of labour market institutions and firm wage policies on the gender earnings gap. Extending the Juhn et al. (1991) decomposition methodology, a new decomposition methodology is proposed to investigate the...

[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...