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contrast to tournaments, which are often avoided by women, we find that women choose team-based pay at least as frequently as … women's more optimistic assessments of their prospective teammate's ability and men's greater responsiveness to efficiency … gains associated with team production. Women also respond differently to alternative rules for team formation in a manner …
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women tend to be over-represented in this sector, we expect unskilled women to suffer a relatively large wage and …
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women's relative wage increased, particularly during the period of liberalization. Both between and within-industry shifts … tariffs (U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods) and hiring of women in skilled blue-collar occupations. Finally, we find suggestive … evidence that household bargaining power shifted in favor of women. Expenditures shifted from goods associated with male …
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establishments' excess turnover of employees is sensitive to the wage premium of men, but not to the wage premium of women …
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This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...
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should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … and 2001, we use control function (Heckit) methods to correct married women's conditional mean wages for selectivity and … in women's mean log wages. Finally, we make a first attempt to gauge the relative importance of selection versus …
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levels have grown, the returns to experience on wages and labor force participation have also risen among less-skilled women … wages and labor force participation has also declined markedly among women of all skill levels. …In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage …
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changes in the distribution of observable skills affect employment and wages. We also use more standard regression methods to … more skilled than the previous one. Blacks and Hispanics have gained relative to whites and women have gained relative to …
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important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational … of increase in the importance of people skills between the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women%u2019s … wages increased more rapidly while the wages of blacks grew more slowly over these years relative to earlier years. …
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is traced to a rise in women's relative experience levels and occupational status, and a larger negative impact of de … which worked against women. Using a simply supply and demand framework, we find that the net effect of supply and demand … shifts was unfavorable for women as a group: shifts in the composition of demand during this period favoring female workers …
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