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Gender segregation in employment contracts
Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
, which may be consistent with some degree of discrimination in a few of the labour markets considered, especially in southern …
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Gender gaps in unemployment rates in OECD countries
Azmat, Ghazala; Guell, Maia; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
than women so that discrimination against women may explain part of the gender gap in unemployment rates in the …
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Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
A large proportion of the gender wage gap is usually left unexplained. In this paper, we investigate whether the unexplained component is due to misspecification. Using a sample of recent UK graduates, we introduce variables on career expectations and character traits, variables that are...
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Giving a little help to girls? evidence on grade discrimination and its effect on students' achievement
Terrier, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior … to show that classes in which teachers present a high degree of discrimination in favor of girls are also classes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266091
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Gender and the labor market: what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126362
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Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; González, Libertad; Keane, Claire; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women’s outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. This simple prediction has been tested in the literature using time...
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Modernisation and son preference
Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928624
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Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy
Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper explains the narrowing of gender gaps in wages and market hours in recent decades by the growth of the service economy. We propose a model with three sectors: goods, services and home production. Women have a comparative advantage in the production of services in the market and at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746303
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Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy
Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126308
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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by...
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