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Women-led firms and the gender gap in top executive jobs

Bell, Linda A. (contributor) - 2005

compensation ; gender discrimination ; labor market institutions …

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Ancestral Beliefs about Gender Roles and Women in Corporate Leadership

McLean, R. David - 2020

In U.S. counties where more of the population or their ancestors immigrated from countries with more gender-egalitarian beliefs, firms are 20% more likely to have a female director, and almost twice as likely to have a female CEO. In such counties, female directors are also more likely to chair...

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Does it pay to be beautiful? : physically attractive people can earn more, particularly in customer-facing jobs, and the rewards for men are higher than for women

Sierminska, Eva - 2015

It is a well-established view amongst economists that goodlooking people have a better chance of employment and can earn more than those who are less physically attractive. A "beauty premium" is particularly apparent in jobs where there is a productivity gain associated with good looks, though...

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Gender differences in competitive positions : experimental evidence on job promotion

Peterlé, Emmanuel; Rau, Holger A. - 2017

discrimination in a treatment where a computer randomly recruits. Discriminatory behavior by the employer is isolated in a treatment …

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Occupational Pattern, Wage Rates and Earning Disparities in India: A Decomposition Analysis

MUKHERJEE, DIPA; MAJUMDER, RAJARSHI - In: Indian Economic Review 46 (2011) 1, pp. 131-152

discrimination during entry and wage setting, and that by endowment in explaining the occupational and earning disparities have been … Discrimination and Endowment gaps. …

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Determinants of the Employment Status of Indigenous Australians: The Role of Crime.

Borland, J.; Hunter, B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

This study examines the determinants of the employment status of Indigenous Australians using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey.

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Challenges for measuring the LGBT+ population and homophobia in Mexico

Gutiérrez, Emilio Fernandez; Rubli, Adrian - 2023

We contribute to understanding the challenges for estimating the size of the LGBTQ+ population and discriminatory sentiment against it by surveying 10,003 individuals, whom we randomize into a direct question or an Item Count Technique (ICT) elicitation group. The fractions of the population...

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Do labour market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination?

Arceo, Eva; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - 2016

discrimination. In this paper we aim at analysing the effect of local labour market conditions on a firm's decision to discriminate …. We use a direct measure of discrimination using online job advertisements which use ascriptive characteristics (such as … discrimination. In theory, the effect of the unemployment rate on discrimination is ambiguous. Using data from over 300,000 online …

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Analysis of gender wage differential in China's urban labor market

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …, followed by their working experience. On the other hand, education acts as a contributor for discrimination in the labor market. …

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The gender income gap and the influence of family formation reconsidered

Ochsenfeld, Fabian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In her recent study Bobbitt-Zeher (2007) takes on the important task of identifying the contribution of educational factors relative to non-educational factors in the making of the gender income gap among the college-educated and finds that “family formation has virtually no effect on the...

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