Sexual Differences in Earnings: The Role of Individual Personalities and Tastes

Filer, Randall K.

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“…Mining/electricity, manufacturing and financial industries appear to be positively correlated with the earnings of male and female workers. The earnings profile of Kuwaiti men IJM 9,3 is steeper relative to the earnings profiles of groups of women.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…This a r ticle examines the sources of earnings differential by sex. The work of Oaxaca [1] and Malkiel and Malkiel [2] has spurred a surge of American and European studies [3,4] which use the basic human capital model for decomposing sex-specific earnings into " endowments" and "discrimination" components. In his analysis of the Cyprus labour market, House[51, has provided the first estimates for a developing country.…”

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Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market of Kuwait

Hosni

Al-Qudsi

1988

International Journal of Manpower

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Introduction Kuwait belongs to a grouping of countries — the Arab Gulf States — with unique characteristics in relation to other developing countries. Their vast financial resources coupled with their small populations have given them the highest per capita incomes in the world. Kuwait, like its neighbours, faces a challenging manpower dilemma. Its national economy has been predominantly manned by foreign workers. Its ultimate goal is to reverse that labour trend.

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Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market of Kuwait

Hosni

Al-Qudsi

1988

International Journal of Manpower

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“…This has recently also been picked up in personality psychology by Roberts (2009) who emphasises the importance of different environments and 4 states in which people perform. Finally, early work by Filer (1983), as well as more recent work by Borghans et al (2006) and Grove et al (2011), suggests that personality is important in explaining labour-market outcomes and gender wage differentials. We also take into account the importance of sorting and add to these approaches a longitudinal approach and a distinction between types of traits.…”

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The importance of early conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes: evidence from the British Cohort Study

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Weel

2015

Oxf. Econ. Pap.

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Investigation of the lower-order structure of conscientiousness suggests that facets related to reliability, decisiveness and impulse control are most strongly correlated with outcomes. We also investigate changes in early conscientiousness and find that persons who experience declines in the personality distribution between the ages 10 and 16 seem to be worse off in terms of a variety of socio-economic outcomes. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: J24

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“…In addition, the psychological perspective can also help explain the reason for gender discrimination. Filer (1983) found the empirical significance in male/female differences in tastes and personalities. Therefore, discrimination by gender not only manifests itself in differences in human capital formation, but also it is evident in distinctive career choices.…”

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Assessing Gender Differences in Software Developers Using the Human Capital Model

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Galup

Quan

2005

Information Resources Management Journal

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Previous studies have indicated that discriminatory practices exist in the Information Technology profession. In this paper, we quantify the differences in the current hourly salaries of female software developers with their male counterparts using the human capital model based on economic theory. In addition to the gender factor, the human capital model includes other control variables that may account for the salary differences such as education, experience, and specific skills, such as object-oriented programming and SQL. Our models indicate that gender is still a statistically and practically significant factor in assessing a software developer's salary.

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Sexual Differences in Earnings: The Role of Individual Personalities and Tastes

Cited by 99 publications

References 22 publications

Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market of Kuwait

Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market of Kuwait

The importance of early conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes: evidence from the British Cohort Study

Assessing Gender Differences in Software Developers Using the Human Capital Model

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