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Elite Schools and Opting in : Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes
Ge, Suqin - 2018
: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family … attainment by 5 percentage points and earnings by 14 percent, while reducing their likelihood of marriage by 4 percentage points …
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Parenthood, Family Friendly Workplaces, and the Gender Gaps in Early Work Careers
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2018
workplace “family friendliness” and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income … 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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Career and Family : College Women Look to the Past
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …
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Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
Munasinghe, Lalith - 2011
Time preference is a key determinant of occupational choice and investments in human capital. Since careers are characterized by different wage growth prospects, individual discount rates play an important role in the relative valuation of jobs or occupations. We predict that individuals with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132747
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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices
Buser, Thomas - 2012
Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of secondary school students in the Netherlands. At the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097269
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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086299
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Shaped by Booms and Busts : How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles
Schoar, Antoinette - 2014
We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also have more conservative styles, such as lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067126
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Political Careers or Career Politicians?
Mattozzi, Andrea - 2007
Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private...
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Women and Stem
Kahn, Shulamit - 2017
Researchers from economics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines have studied the persistent under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue that women's under-representation is concentrated in the...
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Stem Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work
Deming, David - 2018
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are a key contributor to economic growth and national competitiveness. Yet STEM workers are perceived to be in short supply. This paper shows that the “STEM shortage” phenomenon is explained by technological change, which introduces new...
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