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.8 percent of the earnings gender differential …
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Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …
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Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...
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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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children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the …
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educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that …
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Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender … gender convergence, and novel perspectives on remaining gender gaps. The paper finally emphasizes the interplay between … gender trends and the evolution of the industry structure. Based on a shift-share decomposition, it shows that the growth in …
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mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly … mixed-gender teams perform as well or better than same-gender teams, an 8 percentage point increase in men who think … gender-skewed environment, gender stereotypes are malleable and can be altered by integrating members of the opposite sex …
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Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...
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Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...
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