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Female Science Advisors and the Stem Gender Gap

Canaan, Serena - 2019

), policymakers often propose providing women with close mentoring by female scientists. This is based on the idea that female … scientists might act as role models and counteract negative gender stereotypes that are pervasive in science fields. However, as … or advising by female scientists can play an important role in promoting women's participation and persistence in STEM …

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Scientific (Wo)Manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden

Amilon, Anna; Persson, Inga; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2021

Although the share of female PhDs has increased explosively since the 1980s, little research has focused on the utilisation and remuneration of female versus male scientific human capital. Using rich Swedish cross-sectional register data on the stock of PhDs in 2004, this paper analyses to what...

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What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?

de Grip, Andries - 2009

Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour market opportunities, past migration experience,...

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Gender and Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...

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The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment : Europe Over the Great Recession

Dolado, Juan Jose - 2017

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...

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Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Meara, Katie - 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply : The Added Worker Effect Across Europe

Bredtmann, Julia - 2017

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added worker effect. We contribute to the literature by taking an explicit internationally comparative perspective and analyze the variation of the added worker effect across welfare...

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Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries

Nicodemo, Catia - 2009

Parents in the labor force have balance their work and home life, including the choice of the type of care to provide for their children while they work. In this paper we study the connection between the married women's labor force participation, child care arrangements and the time that...

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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU

Kalíšková, Klára - 2015

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

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