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This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
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It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several ?problem groups? of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and old workers, respectively. Using monthly individual-level data for West Germany for the period...
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This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division … and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised in a more gender egalitarian culture to … West Germans socialised in a gender-traditional culture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on …
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The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and …
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gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males suffer a large wage penalty. We also find that non-monetary aspects … on teaching careers by gender, which can influence the sorting of male and female teachers across government and private … gender preferences may influence teachers' recruitment by gender. However, we caution that such prospective initiatives need …
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We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …
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Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...
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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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