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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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more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …
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Gender gaps in income and level of position in the workplace are widespread. One explanation for this inequality is … significant gender gap in competitive tasks that are perceived to favor men. In this paper, we use a verbal task that is perceived … to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype …
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We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we...
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explanation for this pattern, namely preference- and belief-free discrimination. In our setting, an employer can increase effort … discrimination between workers optimal. …
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. The higher propensity to work from home and better educational attainments of women deterred gender wage gap expansion, as … empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …
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recent times, one aspect which remains largely unexplored is the importance of gender sensitivity in trade facilitation. The … gender dimensions of trade facilitation and logistics have largely been examined in sub-Saharan Africa. In South Asia …, however, not much attention has been given to understand the gender impact of services involved in trade facilitation like …
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