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We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High … coworkers may hamper women’s career advancement. Third, individual incentive linking pay to objective performance may enhance …
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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …
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participation. Our purpose is to examine who has a split work schedule and why. We focus on full-time working women with full … that women with partners with a split work schedule or without children (less than 20 percent our sample) are more likely … to have a split work schedule. Yet, despite the revealed preference for a continuous work schedule of the remaining women …
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of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship …
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. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after …
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closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and … those managers are women. These findings suggest a stronger presence of women in managerial positions can help tackle the …
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Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …
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I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female...
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After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...
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and violence, and the experience of women of color. Part 4 covers gender behavioral differences. Part 5 presents studies … on the experience of women trying to break the glass ceiling, as well as the differential effects of education on boys …
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