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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
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The career dynamics of high-skilled women and men: Evidence from Sweden
Albrecht, Jim; Bronson, Mary Ann; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter - 2018
university degree in business or economics. These women and men have similar wages and earnings at the start of their careers … and men. Specifically, we track wages for up to 20 years among women and men born in the years 1960 - 70 who completed a … patterns in wages that we see. Men and women both exhibit greater mobility early in their careers, but there is little gender …
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Employer concentration and wages for specialized workers
Thoresson, Anna - 2021
This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration. It exploits a reform that …, elasticities of wages with respect to labor market concentration are estimated to be between -0.02 and -0.05. The empirical … paper adds to a growing literature that finds that market concentration matters for workers' wages, in a context where labor …
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2002
applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …
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Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction: Evidence from a developing country
López Bóo, Florencia; Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278219
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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model
Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2011
The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and …
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011
This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This metastudy provides a...
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...
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