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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. We show that changes in non-college job prospects contributed to these trends. We first doc- ument that routine-biased technical change disproportionately displaced non-college occupations held by women. We then show that these...
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The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...
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, 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 studies have spoken directly on the gender pay disparities in the legal academy … nationally representative survey to date of tenured law professors in the United States, to track how gender and race are tied to …
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Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. This paper shows that examining occupations which require only a high school degree ("non-college" occupations) can help resolve two puzzles related to this phenomenon. First, why do women attend college at greater rates than men...
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performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …
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While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...
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Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the … impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university sector, focusing on the Russell Group of top … increased by around 0.62 percentage points compared to male counterparts, reducing the gender pay gap by 4.37%. The effect is …
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Gender pay gaps are commonly studied in populations with already completed educational careers. We focus on an earlier … stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … cohorts of a large-scale student survey from Germany, we use regression and wage decomposition techniques to describe gender …
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