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Why gender disparities persist in South Korea’s labor market
Dynan, Karen E.; Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk; Stansbury, Anna - 2022
rapidly ages. The analysis in this paper suggests that the combination of low female employment and low fertility in South …
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Technological Progress, Occupational Structure and Gender Gaps in the German Labour Market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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Can Wage Transparency Alleviate Gender Sorting in the Labor Market?
Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2022
workers whose previous employment is also observed. Our estimates show that switching occupations is common, and it often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082317
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Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market
Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2022
Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic....
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Enterprise Restructuring and Labor Market Gender Gaps in Urban China
Jenq, Christina - 2019
The employment gender gap in urban sector China significantly increased during the restructuring of state … increase in the employment gender gap in this labor market. I find that the gender-asymmetric nature of enterprise … restructuring during this period can explain almost 50% of increase in the urban non-migrant employment gender gap between 1990 and …
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International Trade and Labor Market Discrimination
Chisik, Richard - 2017
We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination into a two-sector, two-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade affects discrimination. Discrimination reduces the matching probability...
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Omission
Lazonick, William - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953298
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Do Women Really Face Wage Discrimination on the Labour Market? An Analysis Using Intra-Household Specialization
Hedija, Veronika - 2015
-household specialization on productivity. The estimate is based on EU-SILC data for 19 member countries of the European Union. We use an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029877
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Discrimination in the Labor Market : The Curse of Competition between Workers
de Haan, Thomas - 2015
In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers' beliefs about workers' behavior induce different groups of workers to invest at different rates in their education. Thus, even though groups may be identical ex-ante, the beliefs of the employers are self-fulfilling....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037417
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A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market
Salamanca, Nicolás - 2016
We extend Becker's model of discrimination by allowing firms to have discriminatory and favoring preferences simultaneously. We draw the two-preference parallel for the marginal firm, illustrate the implications for wage differentials, and consider the implied long-run equilibrium. In the...
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