Employer policies and the immigrant–native earnings gap

Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap

Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe’s most eg...

Disability and Earnings: Are Employer Characteristics Important?

We use matched employee-employer data from Britain to assess the influence of disabilityspecific workplace policies and practices on the earnings of disabled workers. The presence of equal opportunities policies increases the relative wages of disabled workers, but this is partially offset by the negative influence of workplace accommodations. JEL Classification: J30, J14

The Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap across the Earnings Distribution

The Gender Earnings Gap: Measurement and Analysis

When summary measures of latent concepts such as “the gender gap” fail to be adequately representative, one must seek better definitions and measures. This paper presents a set of complementary concepts and measurements of the gender gap that move beyond the traditional summary comparisons of the earnings distributions. In particular, we propose a new concept of “the gender gap” based on the th...

The Gender Gap Between Earnings Distributions

This paper provides an examination of the notion of “distance” and ordering between the whole distributions of earnings for men and women, and some related counterfactuals. We investigate aggregative measures and their statistical implementation and evaluation. We provide a synthesis of the decisiontheoretic basis of measures for such things as the “gender gap”. “Strong” comparison/ordering of ...