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We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …
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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination … forms of discrimination identified in our experiment …
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We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the …
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Modern labor studies consider the relationship between wages and biological markers. A relevant historical question is the relationship between occupational status and biological markers. This study demonstrates that 19th century stature and BMIs were significant in Texas occupation selection;...
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, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent … piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …
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growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …
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randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely …, perceived and actual ability, personality, perceived discrimination, and negotiation styles. Our findings indicate that sorting …
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terms of attrition, to grades received is not a gender-specific characteristic but more likely to reflect gender differences …
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from …, discrimination against migrants does not differ by the perceived educational background of the email sender. However, it does differ … shares, and lower financial resources. Discrimination on the child care market likely perpetuates existing inequalities of …
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