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Ethnic Minorities Rewarded : Ethnostratification on the Wage Market in Belgium

Vertommen, Sara; Martens, Albert - 2007

Several previous researches have confirmed the hypothesis of ethnostratification, which holds that the labour market is … divided into different ethnic layers. While people of a European origin are over-represented in the top layers (the primary … working conditions and greater job insecurity. This paper deals with a very important condition of work: the wage. Does origin …

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Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Fraga, Eduardo - 2017

This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years of professional life. We use longitudinal data with 16 years of the early career history of formal sector workers in Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved...

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Does Education Determine Employment : Peculiarities of the Indian Labour Market

Sharma, Swati - 2015

This study tests the empirical relation between the education qualifications and employment status, for the Indian workers. It also examines the role of education in securing employment in specific industries. There is evidence that the education level has a significant and positive association...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Global Medicine : Is it Ethical or Morally Justifiable for Doctors and Other Healthcare Workers to Go on Strike?

Chima, Sylvester - 2014

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Gender inequality in the labor market : continuing progress?

Blau, Francine D. - 2024

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or...

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Gender Inequality in the Labor Market : Continuing Progress?

Blau, Francine D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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The Effect of Salary History Bans on Wages, Learning, and the Gender Pay Gap

Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2021

A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages themselves are both necessary to motivate optimal...

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On the peculiar relevance of a fundamental dilemma of minimum-wage regulation in post-socialism : apropos of an international investigation

István, Gábor R. - 2010

To the extent minimum-wage regulation is effective in fighting against excessive earnings handicaps of those at the bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and...

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