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Does Rosie like riveting? : male and female occupational choices
Lordan, Grace; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521152
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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805387
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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Lordan, Grace - 2016
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984866
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129058
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764671
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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306367
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Gender differences in teacher judgement of comparative advantage
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2023
advantage in explaining the gender gap in college STEM major choice. For these reasons, it is important to understand why … plausible pathway is through teachers. We study gender differences in teacher evaluations of student comparative advantage … differences in teacher judgement by gender do not provide another reason for the gender gap in STEM. …
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Essential work and emergency childcare : identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, singleparent essential workers experience relatively large negative labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321818
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Work, care and gender during the COVID-19 crisis
Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2020
We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find evidence that labour market outcomes of men and women were roughly equally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295549
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Self-employment and the paradox of the contented female worker
Bender, Keith A.; Carioti, Kristen - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 47 (2016) 2, pp. 421-435
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