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widens as women climb up the corporate ladder. Also, on evaluation of different industries, a variation in the gender pay gap …Gender discrimination in the labour market has been a subject of various social and political debates all around the … that a significant pay disparity exists between the female and male employees. Further more, the trends show that the gap …
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Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage … examines the wage gaps across different quantiles of the wage distribution. These gender wage gaps are analysed for regular … within and between group (gender) inequalities. Finally, the Machado-Mata-Melly (2006) decomposition method is used to …
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candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …
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This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
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This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329070
This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816632
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925511
Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the …
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