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, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by … the importance of these factors suggests that they account for a small to moderate portion of the gender pay gap …Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender …
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One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that …
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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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It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the … occupational match in order to access a female mentor. This willingness to pay for female mentors declines to zero when information … on mentor quality is provided. The evidence suggests that female students use mentor gender to alleviate information …
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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 provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …
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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …
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, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … inequality, whereas low-wage female workers reduce labor supply only if unequal pay is due to gender-discriminatory chances. Our … piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …
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