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Is the bar higher for female scholars? : evidence from career steps in economics

Johannesen, Niels; Muchardt, Simon - 2024

question by comparing the scientific merit of male and female academic economists who make the same career step. Across four … makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …

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The gender-career estimation gap

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations …-under-estimated career prospects of female workers and statistical discrimination in the labor market are described. Both aspects are jointly … empirical part analysis the respective self- and reciprocal estimation of female and male career prospects for public sector …

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...

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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy

Ryan, CJ - 2020

Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...

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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … tackle the greater propensity of females to exit STEM throughout the career. …

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Reaching high : occupational sorting and higher education wage inequality in the UK

Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren Marie - 2012

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...

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Do Relative Disadvantages in College Reinforce Women's Glass Ceiling?

Ribas, Rafael P. - 2020

Worldwide, women remain underrepresented in management roles, and the environment in which women are professionally trained seems to matter. This study exploits a setting where college students are split into two groups based on entry-level scores. Throughout college, students in the same group...

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Much ado about nothing? : the wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2017

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...

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Career paths of PhD graduates in Eastern and Western Germany : same qualification, same labor market outcomes?

Rehs, Andreas; Fuchs, Michaela - 2020

ongoing debate surrounding the underrepresentation of eastern Germans in top positions in Germany. We examine the career paths …

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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

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