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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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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination
D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020
Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
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Marriage Equality, Workplace Inequality : The Next Gay Rights Battle
Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2021
renewed attention to the argument that sexual orientation discrimination constitutes a form of sex discrimination. The … orientation discrimination and sex discrimination. By combating discrimination in employment, housing, and other civil rights …
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Combating Inequality : The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities
Pettinicchio, David - 2020
This paper addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009-2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership is especially beneficial for people...
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Perpetuating Inequality : What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages
Bessen, James E. - 2020
Pay gaps for women and minorities have persisted after accounting for observable differences. Why? If employers can access applicants' salary histories while bargaining over wages, they can take advantage of past inequities, perpetuating inequality. Recently, a dozen US states have banned...
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Inherited Discrimination and Inequality
Mialon, Sue H. - 2022
This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive … signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment … on their children's signaling that interlinks inequality and discrimination and causes them to be inherited by future …
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On the distributional effects of minimum wages : a note
Sell, Friedrich L.; Öllinger, Michael - 2017
In this note, we recall that unions traditionally pursue a policy of pushing higher average wages and, at the same time, for a compression of the structure of wages and salaries, which is some sort of equity. Given the precipitous fall of union density in many, if not all, OECD countries, the...
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Non-wage job values and implications for inequality
Lehmann, Tobias - 2023
I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011. I show that differences in non-wage job value between firms are non-parametrically identified from data on worker flows and wage differentials. Intuitively, firms with high...
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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Prejudice and Income Inequality
Mialon, Sue H. - 2019
In signaling games, prejudice occurs if an employer pre-judges some applicants without information and dismisses their signals based on irrelevant characteristics like race. When signaling is inefficient, competition among applicants lowers their signaling incentives and the quality of signals...
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