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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance

Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017

implication of our findings is that discrimination in the capital market spills over to the labour market, leading to the …

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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016

experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …

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The gender wage gap in developed countries

Kunze, Astrid - 2017

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...

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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections

Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019

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 compare the differential political career progression of...

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Informed choices : gender gaps in career advice

Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...

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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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Manpower constraints and corporate policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020

the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the subsequent differential fluxes of Eastern immigrants across Western states …

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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between … individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect … changes in education and region of origin are accounted for, we find that the unobservable skills of newly arriving immigrants …

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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform

Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019

We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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