scholarly journals Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Collischon ◽  
Andreas Eberl
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Wage Gaps ◽  
Partial Explanation

scholarly journals Personality Traits as a Partial Explanation for Gender Wage Gaps and Glass Ceilings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Collischon
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Wage Gaps ◽  
Partial Explanation ◽  
Potential Channels ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Bargaining Behavior ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the wage distribution). Using longitudinal survey data from Germany, I combine unconditional quantile regressions with wage gap decompositions to identify the effect of personality traits on gender gaps and investigate potential channels of the effect. The results suggest that the impact of personality traits on wage gaps increases across the wage distribution. Personality traits explain up to 14% of the overall gender wage gap at the top of the wage distribution and around 7-9% at the mean. The effect is mostly driven by direct wage effects (potentially through productivity or bargaining behavior) of certain traits that differ between men and women, while access to jobs and discrimination of women based on personality traits play a minor role.

Head Position Identification

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-448
Author(s):  
H. N. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Roc Curve ◽  
Head Position ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Partial Explanation ◽  
Complex Sounds ◽  
Binaural Cues ◽  
Criterion Behavior ◽  
Stimulus Degradation

A binaural recording of traffic sounds that reached an artificial head oriented in five different positions was presented to five subjects, each of whom responded under four different criteria. The results showed that it is possible to examine the ability of listeners to localize sound while listening through earphones and that the criterion adopted by an individual listener is independent of his performance. For the experimental conditions used, the Type II ROC curve generated by manipulating criterion behavior was linear and consistent with a guessing model. Further experiments involving different degrees of stimulus degradation suggested a partial explanation for this finding and illustrated the various types of monaural and binaural cues used by normal and hearing-impaired listeners to localize complex sounds.

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