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We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women. This effect is driven by age (and fertility) rather than by...
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matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …
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This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … existing evidence comes from the top of the education and talent distribution. In this study, we use incentivized choices from … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …
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We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students … graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We find that students with an advisor of the same gender tend to …-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender …
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This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years ….6 percentage point higher than their high‐ability female counter-parts. This contributed to the increase in the conditional gender … conditional gender wage gap between ages 21 and 36 …
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on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained …
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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