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Gender gap dynamics among refugees and recent immigrants : different start, similar patterns?

Kosyakova, Yuliya; Salikutluk, Zerrin - 2023

literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results … uncover narrow initial gender differences among refugees that grow over time and a reversed pattern among other immigrants …

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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …

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Wealth Discrimination Theory

Curtis Jr, James E - 2015

One approach to analyzing inequality is to compare average economic choices from a classical theoretical framework. Another approach considers the impact of the formation of society, through statutes and institutions, on average economic outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on...

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Discrimination in the Publishing Industry?

Leung, Tin Cheuk; Strumpf, Koleman S. - 2021

prior sales, we find that the racial pay gap disappeared and the gender pay gap become statistically insignificant …

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The Diversity Matrix : Updating What Diversity Means for Discrimination Laws in the 21st Century

for Law, Policy and Business, Superdiversity Institute; … - 2021

The Diversity Matrix discusses the need for a 'matrix' or 'intersectional' approach to diversity in the context of our anti-discrimination laws, and examines the implications of undertaking such an approach

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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

van der Leij, Marco J.; Buhai, I. Sebastian - 2008

We develop a social network model of occupational segregation between different social groups, generated by the existence of positive inbreeding bias among individuals from the same group. If network referrals are important for job search, then expected homophily in the contact network structure...

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Women's work after war

Kleykamp, Meredith A. - 2010

In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women...

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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Leij, Marco van der; Buhai, Sebastian - 2008

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Market Competition and Discrimination

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

Becker (1957) famously postulated that taste-based discrimination should disappear in the long run if the market operates competitively. This study provides evidence in support of this idea by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit...

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Discrimination and Assimilation

Eguia, Jon X. - 2015

I present a theory of assimilation in a heterogeneous society composed of two groups with distinct social norms and unequal statuses. Members of the group with a relatively disadvantaged status face an incentive to assimilate, embracing the norms of the more advantaged group. The cost of...

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