performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

of underrepresented groups, assuming that gender differences in interactions and cultural differences and prejudice may … early 1990s in the United States can help explain why the gender wage gap closed and the black-white wage gap stagnated in …

nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and economists. Third, the gender gap in STEM jobs depends heavily on how one defines STEM …. One traditional definition shows that STEM jobs are 76% male, but most task-based definitions show gender gaps only half …

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages … know others with high unobserved productivity. Empirically, we identify the networks through coworker links within a rich … starting wages of linked entrants, suggesting that firms use the ability-density of social networks when setting entry wages …

canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimension, an endogenous market/home labor choice … and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …

effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …