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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
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The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … heterogeneity across worker groups on average, the link between female wages and gender composition is small and not statistically …
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wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian … the law among smaller firms where the majority of men and women work. This evidence provides important lessons of the …
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To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances … facts: (1) there is a clear gender difference in the timing of job offer acceptance, with women accepting jobs substantially … earlier than men, and (2) the gender earnings gap in accepted offers narrows in favor of women over the course of the job …
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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
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