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Gender Gaps in Political Seniority Systems

Cirone, Alexandra; Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, … - 2023

Closed-list proportional representation (PR) generates higher average levels of descriptive representation for women. But because parties control candidate promotion, often based on seniority rules, gender bias in the seniority system can potentially curtail women’s career advancement. We...

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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : a test using dual jobholders

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Saggio, Raffaele; … - 2022

This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We … bargaining versus wage posting in the labor market. We interpret the evidence within a model where workers facing hours … aggregate, wage bargaining appears to be a limited determinant of wage setting. The estimated wage response to improved outside …

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Gender and nominal power in multilateral bargaining

Maaser, Nicola; Paetzel, Fabian; Traub, Stefan - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25

In many bargaining situations, the distribution of seats or voting weights does not accurately reflect bargaining power … at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in …

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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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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

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The Future of Roe and the Gender Pay Gap : An Empirical Assessment

Ravid, Itay; Zandberg, Jonathan - 2022

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court is currently considering a Mississippi law that prohibits nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, in direct contradiction to the holding in Roe v. Wade. Among the many arguments raised in Dobbs in an attempt to...

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Formation of the Optimal Ratio of Social Benefits and Wages in the Enterprise

Shvaiba, Dzmitry - 2017

By asking the question, whether the effective social services to a particular enterprise, whether it requires a transformation, rather - purchased services or social development of their own social needs specific indicator of volume of social spending. To form such an indicator in the article is...

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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - 2008

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

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Outside offers and bidding costs

Virág, Gábor - 2006

This paper provides a search theoretic model with endogenous job creation, and homogenous workers and firms. The model introduces bidding costs and allows the current employer to make a counteroffer with probability q when the worker receives an outside offer. In equilibrium, a higher level of...

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