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participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions … resumption of progress in narrowing gender gaps in these areas, concluding it is unlikely without policy intervention. She then … increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market …
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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …
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employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full …
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Civil rights legislation of the 1960s made it illegal foran employer to pay men and women on different bases for the same work or to discriminate against women in hiring, job assignment, or promotion. Two decades later, however, the ratio of women's to men's earnings has shown little upward...
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The paper analyzes the joint determination of wives' earnings and labor force participation over the life cycle given the interruptions in wives' work careers. The interruptions affect the profitability of the investment in human capital, which in turn determines earnings. The earnings prospects...
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degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
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This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education, biased demand shocks, and minimum wage. I take it to Brazilian data for 1998 and 2012 and find that (i) supply and...
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gender-equal workplace outcomes. In response to the large and unanticipated 1999 Brazilian Real exchange rate devaluation …, the gender wage gap widened across all firms. The contrast between female and male-led firms was large and highly … significant regarding managerial and supervisory employees. Both the gender wage gap and the proportion of female employees grew …
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This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of … gender pay gap. The whole decline in the gap originates from (i) newer worker cohorts who enter the labor market with smaller …-than-average gender pay gaps and (ii) older worker cohorts who exit with higher-than-average gender pay gaps. As predicted by the model …
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Although women make up nearly half the U.S. workforce, most studies of earnings inequality focus on men. This is at least in part because of the complexity of modeling both the decision to work (i.e., the extensive margin) and the level of earnings conditional on work (the intensive margin). In...
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