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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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We assess the role of information gaps in understanding gender differences in negotiation behavior by conducting a randomized information experiment on the 2018 to 2020 graduating cohorts of undergraduate business majors from Boston University. Prior to starting their job search, treated...
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Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on …
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This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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adolescence substantially reduces the child penalty in employment later in life. Conversely, we find that greater exposure to …
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Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment …
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protection laws. In contrast to the findings for employment, we find little evidence for a relationship between wages and … find that on average employment shares have increased in occupations more exposed to AI. This is particularly the case for … Technological Change theory. While there exists heterogeneity across countries, only very few countries show a decline in employment …
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younger and older workers increases more in slower-growing, older, and larger firms and in firms with higher mean wages, where …
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