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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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1900 to 1920 and an organization of work was employed resembling that used earlier in manufacturing. These findings can be …
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discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and …
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In the past two decades gender pay differences have narrowed considerably and a declining significance of gender has … there was a rising significance of gender. The emergence of gender distinctions accompanied several important changes in the … economy including the rise of white-collar work for women and increases in women's educational attainment. Firms adopted …
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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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