In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … segregation was reduced over the 1970-2009 period was through the entry of new cohorts of women, presumably better prepared than …

The paper empirically explores the international economic effects of gender discrimination, namely the linkages of … gender inequality with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses different forms and … the extent of gender discrimination across countries and presents the results of empirical tests of those linkages. The …

This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure … gender culture based on firms' attitudes is significant in explaining gender gap in employment in Italian provinces. We show …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly … analysis reveals that the crowding of women into the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …

discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against …

This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We … find that women have a reduced chance to be hired at higher hierarchical levels. We refer to this phenomenon as the glass … door. The glass door consists of an absolute and a relative effect. First, there is a reduced probability of women being …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

' underlying gender preferences are highly job-specific, with many firms requesting men for some jobs and women for others, and …We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences …

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … the competitiveness difference between men and women declines significantly when individuals are given performance …