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Sexual harassment, a widespread problem in the workplace, arguably keeps female employees from optimally employing their human capital. We show that removing or diminishing this friction improves productivity. Specifically, using the male-dominated fund industry as our testing ground, we show...
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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 …
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, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at …. Going further, this gender gap is limited to large firms. Explanations may refer to large firms using market power in the …
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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 …
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...
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Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper … promotions to associate professor positions, we do not observe any significant interaction between the gender of evaluators and … the gender of candidates. If anything, in this case a larger share of female evaluators is associated with fewer …
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The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in … fall in the gender wage gap. I test this implication using data from the Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey covering 1986 … within-firm endowment-adjusted gender wage gap, making use of the fact that I am able to follow firms over time. The …
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The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … relatively small, the gender gap in the probability of hospitalization and usage of scarce resources is very high. Ceteris … assets, help from friends, etc., is much higher than that of girls. Moreover, the results indicate that the gender gap …
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Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...
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To what extent is the gender wage gap of fulltime employees due to differences in productiv-ity- related … find that only one tenth of the gender gap in wages is explained by human capital differences between men and women. Re …-garding the gender wage gap in Germany we conclude that discrimination in the allocation of men and women to different jobs is an …
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