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Gender Discrimination in the British Labour Market: A Reassessment
Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … per cent higher in the absence of discrimination. This is somewhat higher than previous estimates have indicated. …
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The Thatcher Miracle?
Layard, Richard Grenville; Nickell, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
Since 1979 productivity growth in Britain has improved markedly compared with Europe. The turnaround in productivity growth has two main causes. The British economy was subjected to a far more severe contraction of demand in 1980-81 than any other country. This led to a new realism, which was...
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Unemployment, Real Wages and Union Membership
Schmidt, Christoph M; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide not only with a large labour force, but also with a high level of real wages, a small dispersion of...
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Union Membership and Wage Bargaining When Membership is Not Compulsory
Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper develops a theoretical model of the <MI>simultaneous<D> determination of union wages and union membership, and empirically implements the model using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The empirical literature on union wage gaps has long recognized that union membership may be...</d></mi>
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Culture, Discrimination and Individual Productivity: Regional Evidence from Personnel Data in a Large Italian Firm
Ichino, Andrea; Ichino, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …
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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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Segregation in Education and Labour Market Discrimination: The Role of Peer Beliefs
Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …
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The Price of Prejudice
Hedegaard, Morten; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is … worker on ethnic grounds. In addition, we find that the standard theory of statistical discrimination fails to explain … observed choices, and that taking ethnic prejudice into account helps to predict the incidence of discrimination. …
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...
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