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Are girls the fairer sex in India? : revisiting intra-household allocation of education expenditure

Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2011

in many Indian states in the age group 10-14. In contrast, gender discrimination in the secondary school age group 15 …

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Bias in the legal profession : self-assessed versus statistical measures of discrimination

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - 2011

Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers … workers' perceptions of discrimination that drive formal complaints to the EEOC. Yet the relationship between statistical and … self-assessed measures of discrimination is far from obvious. We expand on the previous literature by using data from the …

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Determinants of female entrepreneurship in India

Daymard, Arnaud - 2015

This paper examines the nature and determinants of female entrepreneurship in India based on survey data. The first part assesses basic characteristics of female entrepreneurship in India, while the subsequent sections analyse key determinants of female entrepreneurship based on the literature,...

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Determinants of the low female labour force participation in India

Sorsa, Piritta; Mareš, Jan; Didier, Mathilde; … - 2015

The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is puzzling and stands out among emerging markets. At the same time greater economic participation of women can be a source of inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants...

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Is there a glass ceiling in Sweden?

Albrecht, James W.; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan B. - 2001

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ceiling effect. Using earlier data, we show that the same pattern held at the beginning of the...

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Mommy tracks and public policy : on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in promotion

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Vagstad, Steinar - 2006

Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only … symmetric equilibrium: policy must be made permanent. Anti-discrimination policy need not enhance efficiency, and from a …

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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring : biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?

Baert, Stijn - 2015

Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However … of discrimination in America, 1993), namely the bias in their results in case of group differences in the variance of … discrimination. They do not find significant evidence for the predicted bias. …

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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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Gender wage differentials in a competitive labor market : the household interaction effect

Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in fulltime work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women only at strictly lower wages than men. The model...

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