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female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and …
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Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
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Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family … main determinant of the observed gap in labor supply between college men and women. Furthermore, with respect to hours …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women. …
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Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that …
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executive jobs and the effect of women CEOs, Chairs, and Directors on the pay of other women executives. The results show a … narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the mid-1990s. Women top executives earn between 8% to 25% less than male … gap is statistically related to the gender of the Chief Executive and Corporate Board Chair. Women CEO and Board Chairs …
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analysis reveals that the crowding of women into the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …
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job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely …
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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...
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studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits … seven members increases the number of women promoted to full professor by 14%. Conversely, when committee members decide on …
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In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
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