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The Wage Effect of Workplace Sexual Harassment : Evidence for Women in Europe

Zacchia, Giulia; Zuazu, Izaskun - 2023

This article contributes to the literature on wage discrimination by examining the consequences of sexual harassment in …

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Reproductive Justice at Work : Employment Law After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Kessler, Laura T. - 2023

capacities may be used to justify employment discrimination.Part I provides the scientific and legal landscape upon which this … discrimination and unsafe work conditions, including the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), Family and Medical Leave Act of … discrimination law. This Part also examines how insufficient retaliation protections in employment law frustrate employees' ability …

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Bello, Piera; Casarico, Alessandra; Nozza, Debora - 2023

We investigate the extent to which research similarity between senior and junior researchers influences promotion in academia and study its implications in terms of gender diversity among faculty. Using data on the universe of job applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in...

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Gender Inequality in the Labor Market : Continuing Progress?

Blau, Francine D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

considers some new policy initiatives addressing work-family issues and labor market discrimination that may hold potential for …

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Discouraged worker effect and labor market behavior of urban married women

Tayal, Deeksha; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 93-122

The study investigates the importance of poor local labor market conditions in explaining the labor market behavior of married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a discouraged worker effect arising from either of two...

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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...

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Raising the Economic Participation of Women in India : A New Growth Engine?

Sorsa, Piritta - 2015

Economic participation of women in the labour force or as entrepreneurs is low compared to peers and has declined over the past decades despite strong growth. The gap with men is over 50%--the largest among key emerging markets. Participation declines with higher education achievements and...

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Persistence of Incumbents and Female Access to Political Positions

Lippmann, Quentin - 2019

This article investigates whether the persistence of incumbents hinders female access to political positions when incumbents are predominantly men. I exploit regression discontinuity from close electoral races in French municipalities to randomize the eligibility of incumbent mayors for...

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More Female Manager Hires Through More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany

Bossler, Mario - 2016

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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

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