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Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations
Briel, Stephanie - 2020
of prospective university students in Germany. According to our results, female students have lower wage expectations and … gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional …
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Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations
Leibing, Andreas; Peter, Frauke; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022
first-generation college student are associated with large penalties in female wage expectations exclusively. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083699
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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?
Kaas, Leo - 2006
This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job...
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...
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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals
Reuben, Ernesto - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012820
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Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages : Status or Signal?
Clark, Andrew - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775695
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What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?
Aretz, Bodo - 2012
In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004. Using German individual register data, we document a clear upward trend in the persistence of low-wage employment for both men and women. Next to compositional shifts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096458
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Gender Differences in Wage Expectations : Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles
Kießling, Lukas - 2019
. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force … interruptions. Given the importance of wage expectations for labor market decisions, household bargaining, and wage setting, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863831
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Socio-Demographic Model of Gender Gap in Expected and Actual Wages in Estonia
Vassil, Kristjan - 2014
from CV Keskus on people's wage expectations. Findings show that education and ethnicity are primary sources for gender …
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Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Lerche, Adrian; Schönberg, Uta; … - 2023
We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...
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