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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …, reflecting a rise in the family-career complementarity. For women, the family-career trade-off has eased for non …
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, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about discrimination, whether and …
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We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass ceiling highlights the belief that the...
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This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant … Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of gender inequalities: differences in labour market participation …, differences in occupational status, wage discrimination and differences in characteristics. Our findings highlight the relevance …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond … whether fixed traits such as country of birth or gender are more consequential. We find no evidence that immigrants can affect …
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gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … discrimination against women on average, but the gender effect is heterogeneous across occupations and firms. Women have a higher …In most countries, there are systematic age and gender differences in labor market outcomes. Older workers and women …
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neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together …) lenders have a statistically significant preference for borrowers with whom they share gender and ethnic similarity even after …
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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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two applicants differ with respect to characteristics such as gender, age, education, experience, ethnicity, religious …, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …
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