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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169608
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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality : education premiums in 22 OECD countries
Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018
premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870140
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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 - 2024
We investigate the role played by the social environment in the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we find 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 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452416
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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Elitism in higher education and inequality : why are the Nordic countries so special?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2018
levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … inequality than most of the other OECD countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894336
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Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality : evidence from Brazil and South Africa
Lam, David; Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2015
Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality …. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in … inequality, returns to schooling and earnings inequality. We focus on two main questions. What is the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528646
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Non-College Occupations and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment
Chuan, Amanda - 2020
occupational inequality in the non-college labor market to the gap in college enrollment, by employing two empirical exercises to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834534
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822511
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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
Shephard, Andrew - 2019
increase wage inequality. These changes are associated with a substantial upward shift in the distribution of job complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866274