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, they are more likely to be promoted and experience superior wage growth. Because overconfident workers compete fiercely …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
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Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...
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Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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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 compare the differential political career progression of...
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
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We examine individual-level determinants of interest in STEM and analyze whether a digital web application for elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a randomized-controlled trial with experimental lab and...
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(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U …
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Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations. Recent work based on experimental evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the promotion system for French academics to look at...
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