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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
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The destructive economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was distributed unequally across the population. Gender, race … impact on employment was larger for women, minorities, the less educated, and the young, even after accounting for the …
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We analyze whether government spending multipliers differ by the sign of the shock. Using aggregate historical U …, the resulting multipliers do not differ by sign of the shock. Thus, we find no evidence of asymmetry of government …
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allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment …
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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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together these three produce the "parental gender gap," defined as the difference in income between mothers and fathers. We … fathers manage to expand their relative gains, particularly among college graduates. The parental gender gap in earnings …
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Occupations are segregated by sex today, but were far more segregated in the early to mid-twentieth century when married women began to enter the labor force in large numbers. It is difficult to rationalize sex segregation and 'wage discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from...
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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 … acquire known and verifiable credentials. The shift from the rising to the declining significance of gender may have involved …
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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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macroeconomic conditions, that may underlie the small employment and stimulative impacts we estimate in comparison with previous …
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