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occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity …The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth …, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most …
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favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes …
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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This paper takes a different tack in addressing one of the fundamental questions in economics: what are the factors that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent literature, wage levels have been used to estimate the...
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earnings in Canada. When looking at the pattern for women, we find only minor differences in the age-earning relationships …
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analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …
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One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …
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Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Sourcecountry patterns, particularly … the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico,strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of …
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In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …
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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
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