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Women's rights and the gender migration gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494071
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Discrimination against women in hiring
Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D.; Weaver, Andrew - 2023
We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian … businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half (51%) of establishments directly admit that they … randomization technique, we can rule out that discrimination against women is heavily stigmatized in Egypt, meaning that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428146
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Are economics conferences gender-neutral? : evidence from Ireland
Samahita, Margaret; Devereux, Kevin - 2022
We study gender inequality in conference acceptance using data from the Irish Economic Association annual conference from 2016 to 2022, exploiting the introduction of anonymised submission in 2021 to study the effect of blinding. While no gender gap is observed in the organisers' acceptance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411960
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The gender gap in competitiveness : women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing...
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Are Women in Supervisory Positions More Discriminated Against? A Multinomial Approach
Biagetti, Marco - 2016
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992505
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Are Women in Supervisory Positions More Discriminated Against? : A Multinomial Approach
Scicchitano, Sergio - 2016
In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992506
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Women's rights and the gender migration gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479315
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More female manager hires through more female managers? : evidence from Germany
Bossler, Mario; Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2016
This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543232
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Closing the gender gap in leadership Positions : can expanding the pipeline increase parity?
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018
Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785770
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Gender bias in teaching evaluations
Mengel, Friederike; Sauermann, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919532