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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation...

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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies

Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...

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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence

Anwar, Shamena - 2012

We develop a model of a Parole Board contemplating whether to grant parole release to a prisoner who has finished serving their minimum sentence. The model implies a simple outcome test for racial prejudice robust to the inframarginality problem. Our test involves running simple regressions of...

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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2014

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more … inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. I argue that while … much of the GDP/gender-inequality relationship can be explained by the process of development, society-specific factors are …

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New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data

Bayard, Kimberly - 1999

We assemble a new matched employer-employee data set covering essentially all industries and occupations across all regions of the U.S. We use this data set to re-examine the question of the relative contributions to the overall sex gap in wages of sex segregation vs. wage differences by sex...

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Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap

D’Acunto, Francesco - 2020

Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...

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Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap

Baker, Michael - 2019

We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces at different times. Using detailed...

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Integration Costs and Missing Women in Firms

Miller, Conrad - 2019

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of integration are largely fixed, firms will integrate only if their expected number of female employees under integration exceeds some threshold. Motivated by a simple model of firm...

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Gender in the Labor Market : The Role of Equal Opportunity and Family-Friendly Policies

Doran, Elizabeth L. - 2018

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we...

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Does Gender Matter for Promotion in Science? Evidence from Physicists in France

Mairesse, Jacques - 2020

In this study, we investigate what are the factors of the promotion of female and male scientists at the French Institute of Physics (INP) at CNRS, one of the largest European public research organizations. We construct a long panel of INP physicists combining various data sources on their...

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