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Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the … differences in men and women's pay and employment opportunities can be explained by discrimination or by differences in their …
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. The most important involves the detrimental impact of discrimination and other factors that cause women to accept wage … the estimate of the differential in the returns to schooling. The third explanation considered is that women choose to …
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Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see … characteristics, women were just as likely to be promoted to the better paying piece rate section. Neither finding is compatible with …, women were typically less experienced, in an industry in which experience mattered. Second there were some jobs that …
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Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see … characteristics, women were just as likely to be promoted to the better paying piece rate section. Neither finding is compatible with …, women were typically less experienced, in an industry in which experience mattered. Second there were some jobs that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598727
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …
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The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and upward mobility relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both own social status and greater mobility with...
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better predictors of subjective well-being in men than in women. Generic (same-gender) comparisons are the most important …
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Many people remain in the same income group as their parents and this is a cause of much discussion and some concern. In this work, we examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulate life satisfaction and...
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Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys that provide nationally representative samples for two different countries - Australia (the...
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gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male … the gender pay gap as well as entrepreneurship research on women's entrepreneurship to the novel context of social …
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