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wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. We find lesbian women earn more than their … discrimination and occupational sorting play a minimal role at best. Wage penalties, on the other hand, are largely explained by … discrimination. Interestingly, while we do find there are some differences in the relative roles of our three alternative …
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The main aim of this article is the study of the relationship between homosexuality and the labor market. Studies on … discrimination, the impact of which is reflected in their health, wages, and job opportunities. Thus, workers may decide to limit the … conclude that homosexuality not only negatively influences the hiring of workers, who see their access to the labor market …
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sexual orientation, perceived discrimination, the reporting of discriminatory incidents and an individual's employment status … with an increased perception of discrimination and with a lower likelihood of reporting discriminatory incidents. Perceived … discrimination and (unlike hypothesised) also concealment of sexual orientation positively relate to the probability of being …
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Gay/bisexual workers tend to earn less than other men. Does this occur because of discrimination or because of … discrimination effects from selection effects. Using a large sample of recently graduated men in the Netherlands, we find that gay …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …
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commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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For several decades Germany has registered high rates of immigration. Migrant labourers from Turkey and Southern Europe and their descendants who have long been residents in Germany form the largest group of persons with a migration history. The second largest group consists of ethnic Germans...
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Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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