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Gender gaps in Spain: Family issues and the career development of college educated men and women
González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - 2012
that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the … - time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and …
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To be or not to be... a scientist?
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2012
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British...
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Up or out: Research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2012
reforms of the last decade. Female postdocs show significantly higher research incentives but otherwise we find little gender …
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college towns and investigates differences in employment...
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An economic analysis of identity and career choice
Knoth Humlum, Maria; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Skyt … - 2007
Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and...
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The Peter Principle: an experiment
Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...
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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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Gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market
Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - 2012
This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …
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Why do women leave science and engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
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The occupational attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2005
increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …
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