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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather - 2011

Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers … workers' perceptions of discrimination that drive formal complaints to the EEOC. Yet the relationship between statistical and … self-assessed measures of discrimination is far from obvious. We expand on the previous literature by using data from the …

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Selection into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap across the Distribution and over Time

Gallego-Granados, Patricia - 2020

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...

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Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2023

We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment level using German Linked-Employer-Employee- Data from the years 2004 to 2018. For identification of a causal effect we employ a panel model with establishment fixed effects and...

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather - 2011

This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...

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The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Antecol, Heather - 2012

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory results found in the economics literature and the educational psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having...

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Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike - 2017

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...

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Gender-Biased Behavior at Work : What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?

Antecol, Heather; Barcus, Vanessa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2021

This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In … support for the notion that survey-based measures of sexual harassment and gender discrimination capture the same underlying … behavior. Respondents do appear to differentiate between incidents of sexual harassment and incidents of gender discrimination …

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Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany

Jessen, Jonas; Spiess, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we...

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