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Article
Publication date: 27 May 2014

Getting what (employers think) you’re worth: Evidence on the gender gap in entry wages among university graduates

Julia Bredtmann and Sebastian Otten

– The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the gender wage differential of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the gender wage differential of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper makes use of a unique data set on graduates in economics from a large German university that contains detailed information on the graduates’ course of study, their additional qualifications and their transition from university to the labor market. Based on these data, Mincer-type earnings functions as well as wage decompositions as proposed by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) are performed.

Findings

The paper finds a significant gender wage differential of 7 percent. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions suggest that the major part of this gap remains unexplained by gender differences in observable characteristics.

Research limitations/implications

The main feature of our analysis – having a highly homogeneous sample of graduates from a single university – comes at the costs of reduced ability to draw generalized conclusions from our findings.

Originality/value

This paper investigates the determinants of entry wages for a homogeneous group of high-skilled workers using a unique data set of graduates in business and economics from a large German university. Concentrating on a highly homogeneous sample limits the problem of unobserved heterogeneity, which results in an overestimation of the unexplained component of standard decompositions analyses. Hence, the finding that a large part of the gender pay gap remains unexplained can be considered as an indicator for gender discrimination in the labor market for economics graduates.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 35 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-01-2012-0013
ISSN: 0143-7720

Keywords

  • Discrimination
  • Earnings
  • Pay differentials
  • Further education

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Publication date: 23 April 2019

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European Origins of Library and Information Science
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-537720190000013012
ISBN: 978-1-78756-718-4

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Article
Publication date: 19 December 2019

A behavioural investigation of power and gender heterogeneity in operations management under uncertainty

Sebastián Villa and Jaime Andrés Castañeda

The paper aims to explore how power and gender influence decision making in an operational and risky context.

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Purpose

The paper aims to explore how power and gender influence decision making in an operational and risky context.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors run a laboratory experiment. The experimental factors are power and operational profitability. Power is manipulated using an episodic priming task, while profitability, by changing a newsvendor-type product’s procurement cost. Participants’ risk attitude is captured using a risk lottery.

Findings

Participants deviate from the optimal order regardless of the power condition and their risk profile. Risk-seeking women order consistently more than risk-seeking men, which allow women to offer a higher service level. In the low-profit condition, men prefer to make more conservative decisions, which allow them to place orders that are closer to the economical benchmark, where both men’ induced power and the risk-seeking tendencies from both genders play a role. Behavioural models in the high-power condition explain the observed differences in ordering behaviours.

Originality/value

This paper provides behavioural research to explore how differences in power and gender, and their links with risky decision making, influence decision making in an uncertain operations management context, representing thus an important departure from mainstream studies.

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Management Research Review, vol. 43 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-05-2019-0229
ISSN: 2040-8269

Keywords

  • Gender
  • Heterogeneity
  • Risk
  • Power
  • Decision making
  • Production and operations management
  • Behavioural operations

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Article
Publication date: 29 July 2014

Profiling German-speaking socially responsible investors

Gregor Dorfleitner and Sebastian Utz

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main motives of investors in allocating their money in a socially responsible (SR) way.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main motives of investors in allocating their money in a socially responsible (SR) way.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is based on primary data collected in a survey using an online questionnaire. This paper applies tests for continuous and categorical data and (ordered) logit models.

Findings

In a multivariate analysis that investigates determinants of SR investing, this study finds little influence of the demographic factors of gender and investment volume and none of educational level. Furthermore, it shows that the regions investors allocate their money to are significant along with the preference toward the order of return, risk and liquidity. Moreover, there appears to be a gap between supply and demand of SR investments. Additionally, there are indications that a very important inducement for SR investing is the expectation of a high financial performance.

Originality/value

There are very few international studies concerning the link between SR investments and the explanation of preferences with factors other than demographic ones. This study broadens the scope of the literature by providing novel empirical evidence for the German-speaking market.

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Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/QRFM-07-2012-0024
ISSN: 1755-4179

Keywords

  • Survey
  • Multivariate analysis
  • Investment choice preferences
  • Socially responsible investors
  • D81, G02, G11

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Publication date: 29 November 2012

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Iolanda Barbeitos

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Knowledge Management in Tourism: Policy and Governance Applications
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2042-1443(2012)0000004021
ISBN: 978-1-78052-981-3

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