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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters.When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps …
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Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
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Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …
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prepare enable to close the gender gap …
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mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly … mixed-gender teams perform as well or better than same-gender teams, an 8 percentage point increase in men who think … gender-skewed environment, gender stereotypes are malleable and can be altered by integrating members of the opposite sex …
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gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a … female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender discrimination at work. The female boss effect, however, differs across … gender: it is associated with lower discrimination among female employees, but higher among male employees. We also …
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disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … found only against women or only against men. The results thus indicate that disability and gender interact and shape …
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