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-driven categorization of required skill words and construct gender associations of different skill categories using word embeddings. Next … observed gender wage gaps. We also find that large firms require a more extensive range of skills, implying that …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a … Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self … this association, with compliance playing the larger role. Explicit gender requests account for over half of the gender …
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Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …
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When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of … 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense because it generated a large increase in gender …
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This paper presents an alternative explanation of the gender pay gap resting on a simple Hotelling-style dyopsony model …
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This paper presents an alternative explanation of the gender pay gap resting on a simple Hotelling-style dyopsony model …
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We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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