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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 relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence …
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decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction of domestic violence. We compare our findings to that from a published … study in South Africa that combined discussion sessions on life skills and health on reduction in domestic violence and …, albeit short lived decrease in domestic violence. In Burundi there was small reduction but trends suggest a longer duration …
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We assemble a new matched employer-employee data set covering essentially all industries and occupations across all regions of the U.S. We use this data set to re-examine the question of the relative contributions to the overall sex gap in wages of sex segregation vs. wage differences by sex...
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, we find robust evidence that that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approximately 30 percent …. There is suggestive evidence that higher female salaries contributed to the narrowing of the gender gap. The reduction in … the gender gap is primarily in universities where faculty are unionized …
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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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year on housing relative to single women. The gender gap grows significantly larger after accounting for mortgage borrowing … returns can be explained by gender differences in the location and timing of transactions. The remaining gap arises primarily … from gender differences in execution prices: data on repeat sales reveal that women buy the same property for approximately …
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This paper examines gender differences among top business executives using a large executive-employer matched data set … which firm-level temporal flexibility and corporate culture can explain these gender differences. Although we find that … this sorting drives the gender pay gap. However, we do find evidence that corporate culture affects pay gaps within firms …
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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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The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …
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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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