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. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market …
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Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We … randomize workers into treatments where we control relative pay and chances to receive a low or a high wage. Chances can be fair …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low-wage …
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women … into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …
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In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...
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This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a … flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register …
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth … effect is generally higher for females; and that female wage growth from contemporaneous promotion is almost as high as that …
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This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several of the big five personality characteristics...
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of the gender wage gap.An updated longitudinal analysis using the CPS data is also provided. This examination of two …
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