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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents

Mann, Samuel - 2020

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...

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Sexual orientation and earnings : a meta-analysis 2012-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

in the face of anti-discrimination policies represents a cause for concern and indicates the need for comprehensive …

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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"

Payson, Steven - 2019

The word "scapegoat" is defined as "a person made to bear the blame for others," and similarly, "scapegoatism" refers to "the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com,...

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The state of hiring discrimination : a meta-analysis of (almost) all recent correspondence experiments

Lippens, Louis; Vermeiren, Siel; Baert, Stijn - 2021

what extent minority groups face hiring discrimination. Past meta-studies have charted parts of the discrimination … of correspondence experiments on hiring discrimination published between 2005 and 2020. Using a random-effects model, we … computed pooled discrimination ratios concerning a total of ten discrimination grounds upon which unequal treatment in hiring …

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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Occupational licensing and the gender wage gap

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020

We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...

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COVID-19 : a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed - particularly women - in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...

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Sexual orientation, gender identity and labour market outcomes : new patterns and insights

Drydakis, Nick; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

first ever meta-analysis of field experiments on occupational access discrimination based on sexual orientation, (ii …) utilizing the moderating role of marital status and family support, (iii) studying occupational access discrimination based on …

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Maternity leave

Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...

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