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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Wage Discrimination"”.
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ESTIMATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA
… assesses the causes and consequences of gender wage discrimination in Ethiopia. In the first chapter, we estimate the distribution of Gender Wage Discrimination in the Ethiopian urban labor market using quantile counterfactual decompositions. The literature generally finds a u-shaped …
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The implementation of comparable worth : challenges to sex-based wage discrimination
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Racial wage discrimination in South Africa before and after the first democratic election
… the first free election in 1994. Prior to 1994 discrimination in the labour market was embodied in a number of policies (pass laws, occupational colour barring etc.). While such polices may be eliminated by the ANC government, it is apparent that the elimination of racial wage discrimination …
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LOSS AVERSION AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION OF INCOME
… The second chapter explores three possibilities (wage discrimination, lower earning ability, and low aspirations) for these gaps within the framework of a model with loss aversion and inherited reference consumption. When people have loss-averse preferences, low aspirations lead to lower levels of …
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An analysis of the relationship between health and the labour market in South Africa
… market earnings as well as impairment-related wage discrimination is not well-known in South Africa. Therefore, this thesis sought to establish the relationship between health on the one hand, and labour force participation, wage determination and wage discrimination on the other, in South …
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A theoretical analysis of the labor market wage and employment effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
… 1964, which prohibits employers from practicing wage discrimination and employment dis- crimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin or color. A theoretical model of the equal wage and the equal employment provisions of Title Vll is developed and applied to the labor input …
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Gender Pay Gap in Public Organizations: An Analysis of Trends in Pay Gaps Between Men and Women in Federal Agencies
… Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibited gender-based wage discrimination in the workforce specifically between men and women that had an identical skill set and were performing the same job. The gender pay gap has been an issue in the American workforce and particularly public administration as early …
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Pay discrimination revisiting the concept and international perspectives
Sex based wage discrimination has received much attention especially in the late seventies and throughout the eighties. South Africa has had pay equality provisions in place since 1980 and specific legislation in 1988. Although no comprehensive gender based wage study exist prior to 1980, …
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Three Essays on Labor Economics
… across genders. In recent years, labor market discrimination against the physical attractive/unattractive has brought increasing attention primarily because the number of employment-related discrimination claims based on employees' appearance has continued to increase. Therefore, the evaluation …
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An Analysis on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Effect on Women Faculty in Higher Education
… growing but they are still faced with the innate discrimination of being a woman. While higher education institutions have not been absolved from the gender wage gap issue, they have been one of the slowest to adapt to the growing workforce of women. This research study examined one form of …