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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …
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The effects of rent-sharing on the gender wage gap in the Israeli manufaturing sector
Navon, Guy (contributor); Tojerow, Ilan (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; especially, we examine the effects of the interaction between rent-sharing and wages on the gender...
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How and why the gender pension gap in urban China decreased between 1988 and 2018
Gustafsson, Björn; Zhan, Peng; Jia, Hanrui - 2023
In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are … 1988 and 2018. In the paper, we describe the evolution of the fragmented pension system in urban China using a quantitative … China Household Income Project, focusing on individuals aged 60 years and older. Therefore, this study demonstrates how …
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Labor market adjustment to third party competition : evidence from Mexico
Robertson, Raymond; Halliday, Timothy; Vasireddy, Sindhu - 2018
China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China. Using data on U.S. imports in conjunction with quarterly Mexican labor force surveys, we show that U.S. imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …
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Uncovering the gender participation gap in the crime market
Gavrilova, Evelina; Campaniello, Nadia - 2015
Using data from the U.S. National Incident Based Reporting System we document a gender gap in the number of crimes committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker's model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for...
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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources
Antman, Francisca M. - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...
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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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Bad karma or discrimination? : male-female wage gaps among salaried workers in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Goel, Deepti; Khanna, Shantanu - 2015
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage...
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