factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …

, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at …. Going further, this gender gap is limited to large firms. Explanations may refer to large firms using market power in the …. -- Asset managers ; gender ; qualification ; segregation ; attitudes …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …. -- occupational segregation ; gender ; discrimination …

In this paper, we revisit the gender wage inequality in the United States with a focus on the deciles level wage … decline in overall gender wage gap over three decades. Moreover, our study decomposes the trends of the gender wage gap by the … deciles and provides a description of the trends at the decile level for the recent years. We find that a higher gender …

prospects, and apply our analysis to the gender pay gap in the U.S. during the 1980-2010 period. We develop a formal search and … analysis of local labor markets. Our results suggest that an economy's within-industry gender pay gap -- which also controls … for human capital characteristics -- is substantially influenced by gender differences in the quality of outside prospects …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

the gender wage gap. After controlling for a number of gender income gap determinants – age, education, marital status … positively correlated with a state's median gender income gap. Specifically, a percentage point increase in religiosity (increase … in population of believers or that of belonging) is related to a larger gender wage gap by 0.3 percentage points (a 0 …

There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains … that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from …