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models the effect of such bans by augmenting the standard asymmetric learning setting with efficiency wages, such that wages … asymmetric learning, with adverse selection in the lateral hiring market and higher wages for new entrants to the labor market …-evaluate the ability of their incumbent female workers, leading to failure to promote, lower wages, and anchoring in the lateral …
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Using administrative records of home mortgages in Beijing, we show that households systematically choose to buy new homes that are closer to the wife’s workplace. Compared with the husband’s commute, new homes are on average 11% closer to the wife’s workplace by distance and requires 4%...
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in urban and rural wages and participation by gender. The results suggest a small but economically significant …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities using microdata from the Census for the last decades....
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This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities using micro-data from the Census for the last...
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This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
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during the hiring process. We find that the bans reduce gender pay gap by 4.2% points in hourly wages, and by 4.5% points in …
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