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the employment share of women and men. However, the adverse employment effects are only persistent for women, leading to a … friction that prevents women from fully offsetting trade-induced displacements. …
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account for selection. Our results suggest that women's relative wage offers have increased over this period. However …
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Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …
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-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …
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This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline industrial composition. On average, the increase in...
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This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
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factors are now relatively unimportant in the aggregate, women's work force interruptions and shorter hours remain significant …
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In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...
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compare the differential political career progression of women who closely win versus closely lose a state legislature … women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in …
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entitlements in other OECD countries explains 28-29% of the decrease in US women's labor force participation relative to these … women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals …
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