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The evolution of educational wage differentials for women and men, from 1996 to 2019

Ordemann, Jessica; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2021

This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany, a period when significant changes in the educational composition of the workforce took place. Based on regression analysis and samples of male and female workers from the Socio-Economic...

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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection

Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019

: employees that create lower expected profits as managers have yet better promotion prospects. That finding still holds when the … firm owner optimally chooses the promotion rule, the degree of delegation, and wage payments to both employees and managers …

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Committee deliberation and gender differences in influences

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2023

This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give...

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Reputational concerns and advice-seeking at work

Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023

We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...

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The gender gap in intergenerational mobility : evidence of educational persistence in Brazil

Leone, Tharcisio - 2017

This paper employs mobility matrices, univariate regressions and multivariate econometric techniques based on the recently published nationally representative household survey (PNAD-2014) from Brazil to investigate the relevance of the gendered patterns in the intergenerational transmission of...

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Are women in science less ambitious than men? : experimental evidence on the role of gender and STEM in promotion applications

Süer, Müge - 2023

can be found in supply-side behavioral differences in promotion applications. In this study, using a controlled lab … experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...

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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022

Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...

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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database

Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized...

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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