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acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential … rates by sex, whether in levels, returns to productivity, or coauthorship patterns. …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and … child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a … a child, mothers have a higher likelihood for engaging in informal jobs and less possibility of being promoted if they …
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mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where …
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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to … gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence … can still explain a relatively large proportion of the wage gap. We investigate whether gender differences relating to job …
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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