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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …

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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas

Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015

This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...

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Gender gaps and the role of bosses

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Holub, Felix - 2021

of manager gender for pay gaps is driven by discrimination rather than same-gender complementarities in productivity …

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The impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistribution and productivity

Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi; Günther, Isabel - 2020

This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using … redistribute earnings by voting on a tax rate for the group. Discrimination against women highly increases preferred tax rates and … discrimination against whites or people of color moderately increases the demand for redistribution. The results indicate that …

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Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect

Neugart, Michael; Zaharievay, Anna - 2020

network-driven gender inequality but mitigate inequality arising from direct discrimination in internal promotions. …

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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition

Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...

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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA

Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2020

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several empirical strategies,...

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The glass ceiling revisited : empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder

Heinrichs, Katrin; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...

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Maids and school teachers : low skill migration and high skill labor supply

Freire, Tiago - 2010

Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...

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Couples, careers, and spatial mobility

Nassal, Lea; Paul, Marie - 2021

We examine the employment and earnings effects of long-distance moves for married couples based on a new administrative data set from Germany. Using difference-in-difference propensity score matching, we estimate the average treatment effect for moving couples while precisely accounting for...

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