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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap … among employees. Our results further suggest that the gender gap among the self-employed is largely explained by the fact …
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
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Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …
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I analyze the value workers ascribe to the gender composition of their workplace and the consequences of these … hypothetical job choice experiment. This reveals that on average women and men value gender diversity, but these average … preferences mask substantial heterogeneity. Older female workers are more likely to value gender homophily. This suggests that …
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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non …-blind evaluations. No gender gap is present in either case. These results rule out traditional economic models of discrimination …
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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that …
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can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than … and demand. On the supply side, we observe that the use of AI reduces the gender gap in application completion rates …
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