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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India

Sharma, Shruti - 2019

This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...

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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership

Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...

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A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering

Benson, Alan - 2014

I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due to expectations of future spouses' geographically-clustered occupations and (thereby) inability to relocate for work. Results confirm men segregate into...

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How labour market outcomes reflect age, gender and skills in Korea

Pareliussen, Jon - 2022

Using micro-data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this paper seeks to answer how age, gender and … determined by these demographic profiles rather than education, skills and experience. It finds that literacy skills and tertiary … education, objective measures of skills, which are highly correlated with employment and productivity in most OECD countries, do …

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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and longterm outcomes : evidence from random assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

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Alternative measures of teachers' value added and impact on short and long-term outcomes : evidence from random assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017

Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...

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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK

Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage gap increases over the life cycle, especially between...

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