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-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions. …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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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 … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …
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looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless … influence of human capital and other objective factors on career opportunities. In our study, we go a step further by also …
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gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work … has been slow in a number of sectors, including in civil aviation, where there are clear gender gaps in a range of …
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gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work … has been slow in a number of sectors, including in civil aviation, where there are clear gender gaps in a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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This paper presents an alternative explanation of the gender pay gap resting on a simple Hotelling-style dyopsony model … discrimination in line with Robinson (1933). …
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This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
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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 Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some …
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