Showing 1 - 10 of 89
While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331200
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596585
at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534007
Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404837
Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404839
legal mandates. Data on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (risk-taking behavior, taste for competition …, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through channels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404851
driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404961
education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender …There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010–2012, women were … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404987
Female labor force participation is mainly driven by the value of women’s market wages versus the value of their non-market time. Labor force participation by women varies considerably across countries. To understand this international variation, one must further consider differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573679
Information from longitudinal surveys transforms snapshots of a given moment into something with a time dimension. It illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger generations. It can track the different pathways of men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573698