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This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
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This article studies the extent of occupational gender segregation in Germany and analyzes the influence of … index. We find that the link between the level of segregation and organizational characteristics such as gender …
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In this paper we reexamine the link between gender inequality and corruption. We review the literature on the … previously omitted variable that captures the level of discrimination against women in a society: social institutions related to … gender inequality. Using a sample of developing countries we regress corruption on the representation of women, democracy and …
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. Corruption is more harmful for female-run firms in the areas of the world that have more gender inequality overall …
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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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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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plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
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plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
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This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …
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plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380863