Showing 1 - 10 of 259
lesbian women have been found to receive lower wages in comparison to heterosexual women. We reveal the new evidence on this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261870
countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411420
Heckman's two-stage method for baseline estimation. The results show that women earn less than men throughout the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466982
women in our competitive scenario. We also discuss how the gender gap in tournament entry appears to be contingent on … of gender gap trends in competition entry rates, particularly as women increasingly embrace generative AI tools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485947
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514478
The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023362
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169104
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286108
We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298468
spread, affect the self-employed – particularly women – in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey … the self-employed, who generally face a higher likelihood of income losses due to COVID-19 than employees, women are 35 … that women disproportionately work in industries that are more severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432749