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of gender wage gaps with a view to devising effective policies to reduce them. The findings suggest that, on average …, “sticky floors” related to social norms, gender stereotyping and discrimination account for 40% of the gender wage gap, while …, additionally need to prioritise equal pay and pay transparency laws, measures to address gender stereotyping, competition in …
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255907
show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258938
Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...
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In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job … advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest job-board specified a preferred gender. Over … how the elimination of gender preferences affected hiring and job outcomes. Prior to the campaign, most stated preferences …
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Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828610
show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262640
Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245016
In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing …
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …
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