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Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

Blau, Francine D. - 2001

institutions are responsible for an important portion of international differences in wage inequality, the inverse relationship … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2009

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...

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Marriage Bars : Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920's to 1950's

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1988

Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...

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Why Women Won

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights...

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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups

Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites. We use estimates from three … empirical strategies -- two reduced-form, one structural -- to provide counterfactual simulations of between-group inequality …

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When the Kids Grow Up : Women's Employment and Earnings across the Family Cycle

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...

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