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Female and Male Body Mass, Height, and Weight During US Economics Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure …
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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better. …
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the … size responds to class gender composition more for men than for women. …
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The Career Effects of Union Membership
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; … - 2023
setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
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Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in Stem Participation
Brenoe, Anne Ardila - 2019
larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …
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New Empirical Findings about the Interaction between Public Employment Agency and Private Search Effort
Holzner, Christian; Watanabe, Makoto - 2024
the job-finding probability of unemployed with vacancy referrals unaffected, and increased average wages of newly hired …
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Quality of Life in a Dynamic Spatial Model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, … - 2020
We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
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Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Works Councilors in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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