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balance sheet total and turnover. Furthermore, managers earn more in profitable sectors than in loss-making sectors; however … about the gender pay gap in which SOEs have a special responsibility. In the ongoing debate about the appropriateness of …
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Hierarchical firms are enterprises with rigid internal job ladders. We examine the state enterprise as the prototypical hierarchical firm. In the state enterprise, promotion of employees through the internal hierarchy is determined by the workers’ allocation of time between rent seeking and...
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show that an increase in the share of female top managers is associated with subsequent increases in the share of women in … also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender diversity diminishes over …
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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 quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …
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international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market … are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between …
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We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We investigate the gap at … characteristics, and that about 50% of the gender wage gap cannot be attributed to observable characteristics. The extent of different …
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We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender … wage gap than years of schooling and work experience. In decompositions, adjusting for skill mismatch decreases the gender …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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In most countries, there are systematic age and gender differences in labor market outcomes. Older workers and women … gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … of demand effects by analyzing whether employers use information about a job applicant's age and gender in their hiring …
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