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Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters

Hutchens, Robert Maynard - 2012

This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater … economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed … segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …

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Working Hours, Promotion and the Gender Gap in the Workplace

Kato, Takao - 2017

This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...

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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond - 2018

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany

Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we...

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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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The Gender Reference Point Gap

Kettlewell, Nathan; Levy, Jonathan; Tymula, Agnieszka; … - 2023

Studies have frequently found that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, we depart from usual practice in economics that treats risk attitude as a primitive, and instead adopt a neuroeconomic approach where risk attitude is determined by the reference point which can be easily...

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Gender-Biased Technological Change : Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...

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Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of...

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COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap

Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...

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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Lordan, Grace - 2016

Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be …

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