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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have …
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Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia
De Paola, Maria - 2016
We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to associate and full professor positions that is organized in two stages: first, candidates participate in a national wide competition to obtain the National Scientific...
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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition : Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
De Paola, Maria - 2015
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for productivity and a number of individual and field...
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Does Gender Matter for Academic Promotion? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2011
Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits the random assignment mechanism in place between...
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When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination
Cahuc, Pierre - 2019
Based on a correspondence study conducted in France, we show that fictitious low-skilled applicants in the private sector are half as likely to be called back by the employers when they are of North African rather than French origin. By contrast, the origin of the fictitious applicants does not...
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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy During the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis
Piazzalunga, Daniela - 2016
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its...
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The Gender Pay Gap in UK Medicine
Jones, Melanie K.; Kaya, Ezgi - 2021
In this study we quantify the size and drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in the UK public sector. In using nationally representative data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we make comparisons to doctors employed in the private sector, as well...
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Culture as a Hiring Criterion : Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination scores for hiring French public sector workers, we test whether women and men with the same civil...
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Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Sarsons, Heather - 2021
Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay more flexibly and engage in individual negotiations. Using quasi-exogenous variation in the...
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Mengel, Friederike - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...
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