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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall...
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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
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Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment
Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2011
Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits the random assignment mechanism in place between...
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Remember when it rained: The elusiveness of gender discrimination in Indian school enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
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Movin' on up: Hierarchical occupational segmentation and gender wage gaps
Shatnawi, Dina; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2012
Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...
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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …
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Social incentives matter: Evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
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Market orientation and gender wage gaps: an international study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268261
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Gender gaps across countries and skills: Supply, demand and the industry structure
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...
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