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Using administrative data from Sweden, I study an internationally unique parental leave policy that rewarded parents with a financial bonus as a function of their division of paid parental leave. Results from a birthdate based regression discontinuity design show that the policy significantly...
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We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …
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individual and gender differences in competitiveness. We measure individuals' autonomic nervous system activity in a resting … state as well as under non-competitive and competitive incentives in a real task using heart rate variability measurement … self-selection into competition for women, but not for men. Overall, we find tentative evidence for gender differences in …
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we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and …
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Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that … the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second, work-life balance practices with limited face-to-face interactions with … gender diversity while individual incentive with subjective performance may have an opposite effect. Fourth, a rat race model …
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This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …
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Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …
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a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type … inequality in the distribution of total time spent at work, we show that gender plays an important role in determining the …
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earn more than the uncovered wage earners and the self-employed. For the covered wage earners, men's expected wages are … about twice higher than the women's wages. For the uncovered wage earners, men's wages are near parity with those of women …
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percent of the variation in posted wages. While we estimate a substantial gender wage gap of 15 log points, pay transparency …Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which …
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