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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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Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
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study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together …. Second, our data include job-specific worker performance ratings, allowing us to control for performance and ability more …
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the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …
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Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …
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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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Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … masked using the aggregate crosswalk (based on combined male and female employment) provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Using …
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Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...
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Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women … the Pill can account for 10 percent of the convergence of the gender gap in the 1980s and 30 percent in the 1990s …
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