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Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...
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Do early labor market experiences determine longer-run life and career outcomes, and do they operate differentially for … early-career labor market sorting on a range of life-cycle outcomes that cascade from longer-run labor market sorting, to …-run effects are entirely driven by females, whereas males experience only temporary career disruptions from unfavorable early …
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promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …
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Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no … gender difference in promotion to tenure or full professor after controlling for demographic, family, employer and …
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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 detailed information on the career plans and earnings expectations of college business school seniors, we test … the observed gender differences in expected earnings profiles. We also find no evidence that gender differences in …
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workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …-mothers, impeding mothers' ability to climb career ladders over the longer run. Finally, using auxiliary data based on a survey, we find …
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The goal of this paper is to draw attention to the long lasting effect of education on economic outcomes. We use the relationship between education and two routes to early retirement - the receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and the early claiming of Social Security retirement...
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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 … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be …
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The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has affected an individual's place in the earnings distribution....
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