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Salary and reservation wage gender gaps in Polish academia

Kaszubowski, Mariusz; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2014

By using unique web-survey data, this paper assesses the gender wage gap in Polish academia. We conduct a detailed study of the gender gap considering monthly salaries and reservation wages. The study involves regression analysis, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mean wage differentials and...

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Temporary foreign workers and firms : theory and Canadian evidence

Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...

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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas

Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015

This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...

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The inelastic demand for affirmative action

Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021

We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N = 1, 700). Participants act as employers who decide whether to use AA in hiring job candidates. We implement three treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from...

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Confident, but undervalued : evidence from the irish economic association conference

Samahita, Margaret; Zanella, Martina - 2025

This paper examines the gender influence gap in an academic setting, focusing on the Irish Economic Association (IEA) Conference review process. Using data from 2017 to 2023, we analyze whether organizers follow the recommendations of male and female reviewers equally and whether any difference...

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Are economics conferences gender-neutral? : evidence from Ireland

Samahita, Margaret; Devereux, Kevin - 2022

We study gender inequality in conference acceptance using data from the Irish Economic Association annual conference from 2016 to 2022, exploiting the introduction of anonymised submission in 2021 to study the effect of blinding. While no gender gap is observed in the organisers' acceptance...

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Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession

Devereux, Kevin; Samahita, Margaret - 2022

Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...

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BMI mobility and obesity transitions among children in Ireland

Madden, David - 2019

This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of … mobility appears to be relatively limited although it is greater than for the mothers of the children over the same time period …. There is relatively little variation by gender and maternal education apart from some indication of less mobility out of …

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The labor market returns to unobserved skills : evidence from a gender quota

Moeeni, Safoura; Wei, Feng - 2022

We estimate the effects of unobserved skills on labor market outcomes by investigating a change in the distribution of unobserved skills. Among people with the same levels of observed skills such as education and work experience, there are still disparities in labor market outcomes. since...

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Automation-skill complementarity : the changing returns to soft skills in different stages of technology adoption

Pustovalova, Anastasiia; Vahter, Priit - 2024

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