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Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace : An Experiment

Cadena, Ximena - 2011

intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …

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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women's employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big divide was less between men and women than it...

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Elite Schools and Opting In : Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes

Ge, Suqin - 2018

Using College and Beyond data and a variant on Dale and Krueger's (2002) matched-applicant approach, this paper revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions: we examine new outcomes related to labor force...

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The Long Road to the Fast Track : Career and Family

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct cohorts.' Each cohort made choices concerning career and family subject to different constraints. The first cohort, graduating college from the beginning of the twentieth century...

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Children and Gender Inequality : Evidence from Denmark

Kleven, Henrik - 2018

Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children...

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Parenthood, Family Friendly Workplaces, and the Gender Gaps in Early Work Careers

Hotz, V. Joseph - 2017

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit matched employer-employee data from Sweden to characterize a model-based index of workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect...

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Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets

Barlevy, Gadi - 2017

In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy workloads while simultaneously facing significant risks of dismissal. We argue that the productivity...

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Women, Work, and Family

Blau, Francine D. - 2017

This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household production, including time with children. In looking at...

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The Most Egalitarian of All Professions : Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2012

Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low earnings dispersion relative to other occupations. We sketch a labor market framework based on the theory of equalizing differences to integrate and interpret our empirical...

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … maternal employment is associated with parenting stress and quality. We find that unobserved heterogeneity is an important …

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