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Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and...
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pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … coed girls. Moreover, we found that gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of …
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the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …
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actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …
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]sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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