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With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …
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We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …
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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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Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...
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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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's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …
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mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a …
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This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … other cities and, within Bogota, the gender-based lockdown period to weeks with other lockdown policies. Our key findings … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …
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In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job … advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest job-board specified a preferred gender. Over … how the elimination of gender preferences affected hiring and job outcomes. Prior to the campaign, most stated preferences …
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Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …
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