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Youth labor force participation, education, and human capital in Asia, by gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …

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Signals from on high and the power of growth mindset: a natural field experiment in attracting minorities to high-profile positions

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2021

We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract minorities to high-profile positions. 5,000 prospective applicants were randomized into treatments varying a portion of recruiting materials. We find that self-selection at two...

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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …

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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017

Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...

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Gender differences in preferences for meaning at work

Burbano, Vanessa; Padilla, Nicolas; Meier, Stephan - 2020

In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job characteristic has been overlooked to date: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced...

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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture

Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021

gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …

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Gender and culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force …

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...

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The rise and fall of the American Jewish PhD

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...

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The role of historical resource constraints in modern gender inequality : a cross-country analysis

Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2014

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations' historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...

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