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The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers

Beam, Emily A.; Hyman, Joshua; Theoharides, Caroline - 2017

returns to education, experience, and physical attractiveness among young workers applying for entry-level jobs in a …

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Changing returns to education during a boom? The case of Ireland

McGuinness, Seamus; McGinnity, Frances; O'Connell, Philip - 2008

Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This...

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...

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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273688

A Signal of (Train)ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances

Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo - 2020

This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...

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A Signal of (Train)Ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances

Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo - 2020

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Fat chance!: Obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment

Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011

This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. Based on two waves of rich survey data from the IZA Evaluation dataset, which includes measures...

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Gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market

Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - 2012

is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. …

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Is it sex or personality? The impact of sex-stereotypes on discrimination in applicant selection

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000

This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education,...

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Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological …

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