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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511765
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011
observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364748
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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Booth, Alison; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493101
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079135
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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968005
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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women
Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968007
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The Glass Ceiling in Europe: Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?
Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from … these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe is typically increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971389
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Tax Policy and Returns to Education
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977270
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Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003
The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977273
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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977299