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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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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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Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …
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compensation and expected hours worked. As an example, we apply this framework to the gender wage gap and show how it can explain … the gender wage gap …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing … 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap, respectively. These differences cannot be explained by other judge …
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We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and firm-level data to examine the relationships between profitability, growth and ownership changes, product market...
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and workers from Central and South America. The sources of the gender gap are quite different, however. Gender differences … gender gap largely stems from choices made by women and men concerning the amount of time and energy devoted to a career, as …
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Passengers have faced a history of discrimination in transportation systems. Peer transportation companies such as Uber and Lyft present the opportunity to rectify long-standing discrimination or worsen it. We sent passengers in Seattle, WA and Boston, MA to hail nearly 1,500 rides on controlled...
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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men%u2019s and women%u2019s … slopes account for about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap …
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