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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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/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …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 …
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Do gender disparities in academia reflect that female scholars are held to higher standards than males? We address this … makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …
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This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and … without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization … which gender occupational and industrial segregation leads to a widening of the gender gap in employment. …
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
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We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female … discrimination. Pioneering works of Becker (1957) and Arrow (1973), in terms of partial equilibrium models, have argued that the … forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the …
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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 … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …
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This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical …
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