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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …

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The gender gap in top jobs - the role of overconfidence

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022

job employment. This indicates that while overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has …

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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …

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The gender gap in top jobs : the role of overconfidence

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022

overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has implications for how firms recruit and promote workers …

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Decomposing lifetime-earnings differences between white, black, and hispanic families

Bodenschatz, Hope; Daniels, Gerald Eric <Jr.>; … - 2023 - This version: October 2023

This paper explores disparities between White, Black, and Hispanic families using a measure of lifetime earnings developed by Jacobs et al. (2022) for the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Lifetime earnings are a particularly important measure of well-being, with relevance for wealth...

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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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Brain versus Brawn : The Realization of Women's Comparative Advantage

Rendall, Michelle - 2017

In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over time. During the same period, workers in the US faced...

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