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Informed choices: gender gaps in career advice

Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...

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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania

Opoku, Kwadwo; Mugizi, Francisco M. P.; Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - 2021

wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …

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What drives the gender wage gap? : examining the roles of sorting, productivity differences, and discrimination

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven; Fabling, Richard - 2017

inconsistent with statistical discrimination being an important explanatory factor for the remaining differences in wages. Relating … product market and labor market competition, we find evidence that is consistent with taste discrimination being important for …

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Factors influencing migration of female workers : a case of Bangladesh

Sultana, Humera; Fatima, Ambreen - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-17

Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad. Investment in the shape of remittance further builds human capital, financial capital, and the social capital. The aim of this study is to analyze the trend of Bangladeshi...

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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards

Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...

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Childbearing Age and Gender Discrimination in Hiring Decisions : A Large-Scale Field Experiment

Li, King King; Li, Lunzheng; Si, Wei; Xu, Zhibo - 2022

discrimination in the labor market. We send 35,713 fictitious resumes to real job postings on a major Chinese online recruitment … discrimination in the field of IT, a problem that also exists in HR and ACC, particularly in Beĳing and Shanghai. There is no obvious … discrimination against women of childbearing age in Guangzhou or Shenzhen, where maternity leave is longer. In the aggregate, the …

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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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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Women's rights and the gender migration gap

Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …

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Gender, worker representation and the profitability of firms in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2011

present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or … question by examining the association between the share of female employees and profitability. Using data from manufacturing … establishments, the empirical analysis suggests that there is a positive association between the share of women and profitability in …

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