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information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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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 …
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labor market, such as gender stereotypes and gender identity. This paper examines gender stereotypes and self … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …
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This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...
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field, the authors use performance pay as an indicator of competition in the workplace and compare the gender gap not only … suggest that these gender differences are rather large. To check these hypotheses and findings against differences in the … are less likely than men to work under performance pay contracts, the gender gap is small. Furthermore, the effect of …
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. Given the pervasive result that women are subjected to gender discrimination in the workplace, we first wanted to check … company, we therefore investigated the relationship between perceived gender discrimination, subjective career success and … career anchors. We found that perceived gender discrimination was negatively related to subjective career success overall …
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This paper examines differences in occupational task content among women based on their sexual orientation. Using data from the American Community Survey, we find that women in same-sex couples are more likely to be employed in occupations characterized by more abstract and manual tasks, and...
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We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …
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