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reduction in GDP per capita; the latter distorts the allocation of talent and lowers economic growth. Both imply lower female …-to-male schooling ratios. Our model predicts a convex relationship between nondiscrimination and growth. Although discrimination is … that is consistent with a convex relationship between schooling differentials and growth …
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Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of MBAs, we account for 82 percent of the gap by incorporating noncognitive skills (e.g., confidence and assertiveness) and preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those...
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growth. Interestingly, workers who are not overconfident have higher expected ability conditional on promotion than …
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, they are more likely to be promoted and experience superior wage growth. Because overconfident workers compete fiercely …
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This paper proposes to explain the productivity growth slowdown with the poaching of disruptive inventors by firms … these inventors threaten with their research. I build an endogenous growth model with incremental and disruptive innovation …
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Men in low-income countries invest considerably more years in school than women. From low- to high-income countries, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work, I assess in how far this decline may be related to the...
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This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education, job...
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This paper investigates whether differential treatment of men and women in the labor market is due to unobservable differences in productivity or if it is motivated by a taste for discrimination. While studies on sex-discrimination typically control for human capital (formal education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750852
We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and structurally estimate an equilibrium model of the labor market in which the elasticity of substitution between male and female labor is allowed to vary depending on the task content of...
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