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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …
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difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …
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This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …
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characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …
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policies, flexible work arrangements, and gender equality …
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We combine exogenous variation in union membership with detailed administrative data and a novel field survey to estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in setting wages and determining work amenities. In the...
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In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or junior medical specialist), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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