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The Navy’s promotion-retention process involves two successive decisions: The Navy decides whether an individual is selected for promotion, and then, conditional on the Navy’s decision, the sailor decides whether to reenlist or leave the Navy. Rates of promotion and retention depend on...
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Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender …-based wage gap substantially, and results of research on the gender composition of jobs have been used in guiding pay equity … of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative …
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In this paper, I examine the relationship between sibling sex composition and educational achievement. First, I replicate the study of Butcher and Case (1994) using data on a more recent birth cohort. Contrary to the findings of that study, I find basically no effect of sibling sex composition...
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twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly identifies the effect …
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dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …
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