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The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for … the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …-assignment discrimination depends upon racial productivity differences, the productivity x prejudice interaction, technology, relative labor …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …
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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant … suggest that urban migrants are compensated for working in the informal sector by earning higher wages. There is evidence … however of wage discrimination against rural hukou status. A semi-parametric method suggests a larger discrimination against …
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discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …
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Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behaviour out of …
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gap is due to lowwage women becoming more likely to receive their wages in full than low-wage men in 2000. Furthermore …, the wage gap is stable for those who consistently receive full wages. …
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explained by differences in education quality. Thus the unexplained residual, often identified with labour market discrimination …, usually greatly over-estimates such discrimination. This emphasises even more strongly the need for greater equity in …
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This paper provides new evidence on the male female wage gap in academia. Using unique data from the economics discipline, we estimate a human-capital based model to explore the nature of wage differentials among male and female economics professors. Results indicate the salary gap varies across...
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