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working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
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are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that there are significant gender differences in … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female …
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This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...
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Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …
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, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at …. Going further, this gender gap is limited to large firms. Explanations may refer to large firms using market power in the …
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information to make some comment on the current debate in the UK concerning gender discrimination and underpayment in academia. …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether to hire a worker or not conditionally on the signals she sends – field and length of study and high education (HE) institution. The empirical design of our paper builds on...
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