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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Using a unique data source on academic economist labour market experiences, we explore gender, pay and promotions. In … contrast to the existing literature, we find both a gender promotions gap and a within-rank gender pay gap. A driving factor …
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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We estimate separate wage equations for Danes … of register data, we find that all women are affected by a substantial gender discrimination in wages, but only Pakistani …
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international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …
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This Paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain. Quantile regressions … at each quantile in order to estimate the component of the gender gap not explained by differences in characteristics …
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We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field experiment in two Italian cities: Rome and Milan, by sending fake CVs to real ads. We find that there is a strong penalty for homosexuals, i.e. about 30% less chance to be called back...
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. …
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