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More women in tech? : evidence from a field experiment addressing social identity
Del Carpio, Lucía; Guadalupe, Maria - 2018
This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational …-selection patterns change. Analysis of those patterns suggests that identity considerations act as barriers to entering the technology … sector and that some high-cognitive skill women do not apply because of their high identity costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925155
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Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences
Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270058
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Things versus people: gender differences in vocational interests and in occupational preferences
Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239202
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This is how we do it: How social norms and social identity shape decision making under uncertainty
Lipari, Francesca - In: Games 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-31
social identity (i.e., diachronic identity), and how those beliefs affect individual decisions under uncertainty. The paper … acceptable attributes of an individual identity, also drive individuals' preferences for information acquisition or avoidance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227742
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This is how we do it : how social norms and social identity shape decision making under uncertainty
Lipari, Francesca - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/99, pp. 1-31
social identity (i.e., diachronic identity), and how those beliefs affect individual decisions under uncertainty. The paper … acceptable attributes of an individual identity, also drive individuals’ preferences for information acquisition or avoidance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014965
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Constructing gender differences in the economics lab
Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 741-752
We study the effects of experimental design on male and female behavior in a dictator game. Following social identity …
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OCCUPATIONAL STEREOTYPES AND GENDER-SPECIFIC JOB SATISFACTION
Janssen, Simon; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
Using representative data containing information on job satisfaction and worker’s gender-specific prejudices, we investigate the relationship between stereotyping and job satisfaction. We show that women in stereotypically male jobs are significantly less satisfied with their work climate and...
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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries
Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing countries using a unique, household-survey based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636817
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Gender gaps in Spain: Policies and outcomes over the last three decades
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 61-103
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650281
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Teaching, Gender and Labour Market Incentives
Carroll, David; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession – women make up almost all of the primary and pre-primary teaching cohorts, while men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984587