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occupation are included. These findings suggest that the observed gender differential primarily reflects systematic differences …
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-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …
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on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
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We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual … microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage …
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that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups …
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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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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …
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test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …. Speculations are offered on the intervening variables that mitigate the effect of Muslim gender norms on economic performance …
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returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap …
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