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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … ; wage decomposition ; gender wage gap …

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …

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Does increased price competition reduce entry of new pharmaceutical products?

Granlund, David; Rudholm, Niklas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-14

In October 2002, a substitution reform was introduced in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market. In this paper, the effects of increased price competition due to the reform on the entry of new pharmaceutical products were studied. The results show that the reform did affect the entry behavior of...

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Managed floats to damp world-wide exchange rate liquidity shocks like 1982-5, 2006-9 : field and laboratory evidence for the benefits of a single world Ccrrency

Pope, Robin; Selten, Reinhard - In: The open economics journal 4 (2011), pp. 1-38

This paper's field evidence is: (1) in reality a major exchange rate change devastates an economy, i.e. the widespread academic faith that exchange rate changes are either beneficial or harmless is a false faith that contributes to needless world-wide economic havoc; (2) the 1982-85 exchange rate...

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Social comparison in deterrence policy

Ch'ng, Kean Siang - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 25-41

Management meted out punishment to enforce rules and encourage adherence. However, the effectiveness depended on how the employees perceive and interpret the policy. This study tested the effect of reducing individual lateness in a plastic factory. Field experiment was conducted to test the...

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Initial endowment effects in multi-unit vickrey auctions

Akaichi, Faical; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Gil, José M. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 41-55

We report the result of experiments designed to assess the effect of initial endowments on willingness to pay values elicited from multi-unit Vickrey auctions. Comparing bids from an “endow and upgrade” approach with the “full bidding” approach, we find that the direction of the...

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La teoría de juegos conductual, el dilema del viajero alternativo y la maximización de pagos

Moro, Rodrigo; Freidin, Esteban; Tohmé, Fernando; … - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 457-473

Within the area of Behavioral game theory, we focus on a specific context, namely, on a game we called the Alternative traveler’s dilemma. In this context, we observe that participants tend to choose strictly dominated strategies. In order to explain similar tendencies in other games,...

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender : parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

Göbel, Kristin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....

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Brutto größer als Netto : geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede unter Berücksichtigung von Steuern und Verteilung

Granados, Patricia Gallego; Geyer, Johannes - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 28, pp. 3-12

weiterhin deutlich mehr als Frauen. Seit dem Jahr 2000 hat sich der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap in der Bundesrepublik nur um gut … unerklärten Teil des Gender Pay Gaps über die gesamte Verteilung, also die verschiedenen Gehaltsklassen hinweg, so zeigt sich …, dass der "diskriminierende" Unterschied wächst, je größer das Gehalt wird. Die meisten Studien zum Gender Pay Gap …

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