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What does codetermination do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...
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Do unions shape political ideologies at work?
Matzat, Johannes; Schmeißer, Aiko - 2023
Labor unions' greatest potential for political influence likely arises from their direct connection to millions of individuals at the workplace. There, they may change the ideological positions of both unionizing workers and their non-unionizing management. In this paper, we analyze the...
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Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …
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Pension information and women's awareness
Angelici, Marta; Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; … - 2020
We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness …
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Gender empowerment, supply-chain linkages and foreign direct investment : evidence on Bangladesh
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi - 2020 - Version of July, 2020
This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to...
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Female migration : a way out of discrimination?
Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015
be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad. …
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Gender quotas, competitions, and peer review : experimental evidence on the backlash against women
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2015 - This version: 11 September 2015
sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …. Interestingly, this is the result of women focusing on sabotaging each other while men sabotage indiscriminately. Our results have …
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Equilibrium search and the impact of equal opportunities for women
Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2013
the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important …
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The lasting effects of maternal net nutrition during US economic development
Carson, Scott Alan - 2016
women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with economic development. This study shows that after controlling for … characteristics, African-American women had greater BMIs than lighter complexioned black and white women. Women from the Southwest … were taller and had lower BMIs than women born elsewhere within the US. However, women's BMIs did not vary by occupations …
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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …
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