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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our data distinguish our analysis from the previous...
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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999 : A Cohort-Based Analysis
Weinberger, Catherine J.; Kuhn, Peter - 2021
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men%u2019s and women%u2019s age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative...
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117390
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Men, Women, and Machines : How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality
Juhn, Chinhui - 2012
This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender inequality. We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity and workers are differentiated by skill as well as gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms...
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - 2012
Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113106
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Women's Rights and Development
Fernández, Raquel - 2009
Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...
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Gender in the Labor Market : The Role of Equal Opportunity and Family-Friendly Policies
Doran, Elizabeth - 2018
Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we...
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Gender
Niederle, Muriel - 2014
This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in competition are large and robust, the results are much...
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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors
Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010
This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...
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The Old Boys' Club : Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
Cullen, Zoe - 2019
Offices are social places. Employees and managers take coffee breaks together, go to lunch, hang out over drinks, and … talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we provide evidence that employees' social interactions with their managers … causal effect of managers' gender on their employees' career progressions. We find that male employees assigned to male …
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