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This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New …
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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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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 … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …
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the difficulty of tasks and gender stereotypes. We develop a theoretical model that separates these forces and apply it to … ability both for themselves and for others. Gender stereotypes also have strong predictive power for beliefs, particularly for … gender gaps in self-confidence …
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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 …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …
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wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian …
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assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no …
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This paper investigates the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation on an array of adult socioeconomic and health outcomes. The study analyzes the life trajectories of children born between 1945 and 1968, and followed through 2013, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)....
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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...
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gender division of labor and the evolution and persistence of gender norms. We find that, consistent with existing hypotheses … favoring gender inequality. We identify the causal impact of traditional plough use by exploiting variation in the historical …
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